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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: High contention on the sk_buff_head.lock
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:38:06 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:48:46 -0400

> To see this in action, try taking a moderately large smp system
> (8-way+) and scaling the number of flows.

I can maintain line-rate over 10GB with a 64-cpu box.  It's not
a problem.