Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:35:46 -0400

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 15:40 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> There are two core issues in my mind:
> 
> 1) multi-queue on both RX and TX is going to be very pervasive very
>    soon, everyone is putting this into silicon.
> 
>    The parallelization gain potential is enormous, and we have to
>    design for this.
> 

There is no potential for parallelizing on transmit that i can think of.
Dave, please explain it slowly so i can understand it.

There is huge potential for parallelizing on receive. But i am certainly
missing the value in the transmit.

cheers,
jamal