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 02:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080619.022138.265296442.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080619.021039.193704469.davem@davemloft.net> 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]:39215 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754771AbYFSJVi (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:21:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Krishna Kumar2 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:47:52 +0530 > What about core networking changes? I think you were planning to > remove a lot of stuff (device busy checks, requeue's, etc?) and > also implement lockless code (sch_generic.c at the very least). > Are those ready for taking an initial look? We can't do that completely until every driver has it's TX path converted, which isn't likely to happen so we'll have a compat layer for a long time. I haven't touched one line of generic code yet. It isn't necessary to test out all of these ideas.