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From: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: multiqueue interrupts...
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:29:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D39B13.60401@myri.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221824281.3103.8.camel@achroite>

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:38 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> [...]
>   
>> So on a multiqueue card with 2 RX queues and 2 TX queues we'd
>> have names like:
>>
>> 	eth0-rx-0
>> 	eth0-rx-1
>> 	eth0-tx-0
>> 	eth0-tx-1
>>
>> So let's make an effort to get this done right in 2.6.28 and meanwhile
>> Arjan can add the irqbalanced code.
>>     
>
> What about the case where an interrupt is shared between RX and TX
> completions?  Our hardware is very flexible in this regard, but based on
> performance testing prior to the introduction of TX multiqueue we
> currently allocate multiple interrupts for RX completions and share the
> first with TX completions.
>   

myri10ge uses the same interrupts for TX and RX. The current name is
eth%d:slice-%d but we could change it if there's a consensus.

Brice


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-19 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-19  2:38 multiqueue interrupts David Miller
2008-09-19 11:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-09-19 12:29   ` Brice Goglin [this message]
2008-09-19 20:12     ` David Miller
2008-09-19 20:12   ` David Miller
     [not found] ` <41b516cb0809191050t6c9783dele8926f697854bb1@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-19 18:18   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-19 20:14     ` David Miller
2008-09-19 20:57     ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2008-09-19 21:09       ` David Miller
2008-09-19 21:15         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-19 22:11     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-19 22:24       ` Andy Fleming
2008-09-19 22:28         ` Arjan van de Ven

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