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* [PATCH net-next-2.6] RPS: enables setting CONFIG_RPS config option.
@ 2010-11-23 20:10 Rami Rosen
  2010-11-23 20:12 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Rami Rosen @ 2010-11-23 20:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem, netdev

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Hi,
 The patch enables setting CONFIG_RPS config option for
 Receive packet steering (net/Kconfig.).

Regards,
Rami Rosen


Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>

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diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index 55fd82e..d15c3cb 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -216,9 +216,12 @@ source "net/dcb/Kconfig"
 source "net/dns_resolver/Kconfig"
 
 config RPS
-	boolean
+	bool "Receive packet steering (RPS)"
 	depends on SMP && SYSFS && USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
 	default y
+	---help---
+	  Support for Receive packet steering (RPS), which distributes the work of
+		outgoing data across CPUs.
 
 menu "Network testing"
 

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* Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] RPS: enables setting CONFIG_RPS config option.
  2010-11-23 20:10 [PATCH net-next-2.6] RPS: enables setting CONFIG_RPS config option Rami Rosen
@ 2010-11-23 20:12 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2010-11-23 20:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ramirose; +Cc: netdev

From: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:10:37 +0200

>  The patch enables setting CONFIG_RPS config option for
>  Receive packet steering (net/Kconfig.).

We do not want it to be choosable by the user.

CONFIG_RPS acts merely a dependency description mechanism, nothing
more.

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