From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH net-2.6 1/6] net: Scheduling softirqs between CPUSs Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:21:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20080305.132112.01598419.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080305205116.5989A412541@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: therbert@google.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:39048 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756580AbYCEVVM (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:21:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080305205116.5989A412541@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: therbert@google.com (Tom Herbert) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:51:16 -0800 (PST) > This patch implements kernel changes to allow scheduling of softirq's between processors. > > Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert I've stated this in the past and I still feel that it is foolish to put all of this code into the kernel when every single piece of networking hardware will be doing this for us transparently. Maybe if someone had proposed this 4 or 5 years ago, but right now this code will be irrelevant by the time it ships to any real users.