Subject: Re: High contention on the sk_buff_head.lock

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:38:06 -0700 (PDT)

From: Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:48:46 -0400

> To see this in action, try taking a moderately large smp system
> (8-way+) and scaling the number of flows.

I can maintain line-rate over 10GB with a 64-cpu box.  It's not
a problem.