From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: Distribute transmission of FCoE traffic in 82599 Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090903.200915.157113657.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090904005549.14869.66878.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090904005609.14869.89202.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, yi.zou@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51018 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932698AbZIDDJA (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:09:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090904005609.14869.89202.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:56:10 -0700 > From: Yi Zou > > This adds a simple selection of a FCoE tx queue based on the current cpu id to > distribute transmission of FCoE traffic evenly among multiple FCoE transmit > queues. > > Signed-off-by: Yi Zou > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied. Does it matter that arbitrary programs or other stacks could transmit ETH_P_FCOE traffic as well? Would that interfere with how this offload hardware works now that you're directing all ETH_P_FCOE traffic to FCOE rings?