From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, kaber@trash.net,
fubar@us.ibm.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com, andy@greyhouse.net
Subject: Re: [RFC patch net-next-2.6] net: allow multiple rx_handler registration
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:27:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110630092712.17eb292f@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309447009-8898-1-git-send-email-jpirko@redhat.com>
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:16:49 +0200
Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> wrote:
> For some net topos it is necessary to have multiple "soft-net-devices"
> hooked on one netdev. For example very common is to have
> eth<->(br+vlan). Vlan is not using rh_handler (yet) but also for example
> macvlan would be useful to have hooked on same netdev as br.
>
> This patch introduces rx_handler list. size struct net_device stays
> intact. Measured performance regression on eth-br topo is ~1% (on received
> pkts generated by pktgen) and on eth-bond topo it is ~0.25%
>
> On br I think that the performance can be brought back maybe by using per-cpu
> variables to store port in rx_path (I must check this)
>
> Please comment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
I am ok with the infrastructure, but why should Vlan use rh_handle.
It is wrong to allow macvlan and bridge to share same device.
Right now the code blocks users from doing lots of stupid things.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-30 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-30 15:16 [RFC patch net-next-2.6] net: allow multiple rx_handler registration Jiri Pirko
2011-06-30 16:27 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-06-30 17:22 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-30 17:29 ` Ben Greear
2011-06-30 17:32 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-07-01 6:36 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-01 14:57 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-07-01 15:00 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-07-01 15:01 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-01 16:45 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-07-01 16:49 ` Ben Greear
2011-07-01 16:58 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-07-01 17:08 ` David Lamparter
2011-07-01 17:50 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-06-30 18:13 ` Ben Greear
2011-06-30 18:28 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-30 18:53 ` Ben Greear
2011-06-30 19:50 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-07-01 5:45 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-07-01 16:55 ` David Lamparter
2011-07-01 12:48 ` Jiri Pirko
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