From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew Grover" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] e1000: fix netpoll with NAPI Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:28:25 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20060607164801.GX24227@waste.org> <1149787174.2928.3.camel@strongmad> <20060612001356.GA5112@localhost.localdomain> <1150130534.2879.9.camel@strongmad> <20060612180600.GB3790@hmsreliant.homelinux.net> <20060614204158.GA3967@hmsreliant.homelinux.net> <20060615124355.GA32582@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com ([66.249.82.206]:29862 "EHLO wx-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965015AbWFTI20 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:28:26 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id h28so908637wxd for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:28:25 -0700 (PDT) To: linville@tuxdriver.com In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org (trimmed CC to just netdev) > > > One of our engineers (on the I/O AT team) has been tasked with modifying > > > the Linux kernel to properly support multiple hardware queues (both TX and > > > RX). We'll make sure that he looks at the netpoll interface as part of > > > that process. > > > > Might I ask who this is? I might like to ping him/her on this topic. > > There is potentially some overlap with wireless, at least on the > > transmit side. > > John W. Linville Hi John, so yeah we want multiple TX queues on wired ethernet for QoS, same as wireless. Also for SMP scaling (maybe not needed until 10G+). Did wireless people settle on a design since the email thread in January? Regards -- Andy