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From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2: Patch 1/3] net: hand off skb list to other cpu to submit
	to upper layer
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:53:47 -0700
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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wr=
ote:
>
> From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:15:21 -0700
>
> > I suppose it may be counter-intuitive, but I am not making a genera=
l
> > claim. =A0I would only suggest that these software hacks could be a=
 very
> > good approximation or substitute for hardware functionality. =A0Thi=
s is
> > a generic way to get more performance out of deficient or lower end
> > NICs.
>
> They certainly could. =A0Why don't you post the current version
> of your patches so we have something concrete to discuss?

I'll do that.