From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan-Bernd Themann Subject: RE: [PATCH] NET: Multiple queue hardware support Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:58:43 +0200 Message-ID: <200706201658.43820.ossthema@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev , Christoph Raisch , Thomas Klein , "Jan-Bernd Themann" To: peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com Return-path: Received: from mtagate3.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.152]:42735 "EHLO mtagate3.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753175AbXFTPWI (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:22:08 -0400 Received: from d12nrmr1507.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1507.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.1]) by mtagate3.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5KFM7Ft039056 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:22:07 GMT Received: from d12av03.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av03.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.213]) by d12nrmr1507.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l5KFM6YM1474762 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:22:06 +0200 Received: from d12av03.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av03.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l5KFM6xh008708 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:22:06 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, to me it seems that this patch set only include multiple transmit queue support (for qdisc). Am I right with this observation? If so, are there also plans to support multiple receive queues to allow the queues to be processed in parallel on different CPUs via a standard interface? Currently, some drivers use "fake netdevices" to feed netif_rx_schedule(). Thanks, Jan-Bernd