Subject: Re: OFT - reserving CPU's for networking

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 00:58:15 +0200

> We're tracking flow cpu location state at the socket operations, like
> recvmsg() and sendmsg(), where it belongs.
> 
> Would you like us to call into the card drivers and firmware at these
> spots instead?

No, that's not needed for lazy flow tracking like in netfilter or 
some NICs, it doesn't need exact updates. It just works with seen network 
packets. 

-Andi