From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Multiple TX queue implementation and Batching Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080619.021039.193704469.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: krkumar2@in.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47302 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753370AbYFSJKj (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:10:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Krishna Kumar2 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:17:53 +0530 > Would it be possible to get a sneak preview of your multiple tx queue > implementation (along with a complete re-write of the entire tx path)? > > I would like to see if batching would make sense with the new design, > or becomes redundant (or something to be done entirely at the drivers). Right now I'm just hacking drivers in preparation for this, so that the transmit queueing is seperated from the location in the driver where this actually occurs. I'll post a set of tg3 driver patches once I'm done debugging things.