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From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ifb: add multi-queue support
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:48:15 +0800
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrot=
e:
>
> I'm not sure how this will help, ifb device transmission is
> still serialized by the ingress queue lock and the mirred lock.
>

But not in ifb_thread. For firewall the main routine is after
netif_rx_ni(). For server applications, the packets belong to the same
flow are always routed to the same CPU, and the applications can
benefit with better localization.

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