From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support. Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:30:05 -0400 Message-ID: <466F1E6D.8070401@garzik.org> References: <20070612.140240.00078635.davem@davemloft.net> <466F0C92.5080306@garzik.org> <466F0D78.7090404@candelatech.com> <20070612.142658.45082832.davem@davemloft.net> <466F144A.3070809@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, hadi@cyberus.ca, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com To: Ben Greear Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:58976 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755132AbXFLWaK (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:30:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <466F144A.3070809@candelatech.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Ben Greear wrote: > That sounds plausible for many uses, but it may also be useful to have > the virtual devices. Having 802.1Q VLANs be 'real' devices has worked out > quite well, so I think there is a place for a 'mac-vlan' as well. Virtual devices are pretty much the only solution we have right now, both in terms of available control points, and in terms of mapping to similar existing solutions (like wireless and its multiple net devices). Jeff