Subject: Re: [PATCH] ifb: add multi-queue support

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:02:47 -0800

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:38:29 +0800
Changli Gao <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:10 AM, David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:39:05 -0800
> >
> >> My $.02 is that receive packet steering RPS should be done generically at
> >> receive layer. Then all the CPU, mapping and configuration issues can be
> >> done once, not just for IFB, Bridge, VLAN, ... The number of users of IFB
> >> is small, and setup is complex. Steering packets in IFB is optimizing only
> >> a rarely used corner.
> >>
> >> Layered link services like IFB need to be multi-threaded lockless to maintain
> >> the advantages of multi-queue and RPS.
> >
> > You're probably right.
> >
> 
> So I have to wait RPS, and after it gets merged, I'll back with
> multi-threaded lockless IFB.

Please don't wait... Help, test it make sure it works.