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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: multiqueue vlan devices
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:05:54 +0200
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David Miller a =E9crit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:12:03 +0200
>=20
>> [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: multiqueue vlan device
>>
>> vlan devices are currently not multi-queue capable.
>>
>> We can do that with a new rtnl_link_ops method,
>> get_tx_queues(), called from rtnl_create_link()
>>
>> This new method gets num_tx_queues/real_num_tx_queues
>> from real device.
>>
>> register_vlan_device() is also handled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>=20
> Applied, but now I need you to do an audit :-)
>=20
> I believe that drivers will change the number of TX queues
> in use at times where we'll need to trigger an event or
> something so that vlan's can learn about the value changing.

Yes, I know :)

This is why I kept both num_tx_queues and real_num_tx_queues values,
and not the later :)

Thanks