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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:47:19 +0000

> The specific part I was referring to was:
> 
>    "This scheme can be further improved upon, if the host tells the driver what
>     CPU it wished to run a particular session on. With this information, the
>     driver can steer a session to the same CPU that the scheduler runs the
>     socket reads on, and achieve the best cache locality for both kernel and
>     user level rx processing."
> 
> So far as I'm aware, this hasn't been done.  If it has, I would love to know
> how to work with it.

That bit is not implemented, no.