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Le 08/01/2010 01:07, Tom Herbert a =E9crit :
> I kind of like the way it is right now, which is to enqueue even on
> the local CPU.  The advantage of that is that all the packets receive=
d
> in the napi run are dispatched to all the participating CPUs before
> any are processed, this is good for average and worst case latency on
> a packet burst.

I see... this makes sense, thanks.

Do you know if some non multi queue NIC would be able to provide us
a suitable hash to fill skb->rxhash in NIC driver itself ?