Subject: Re: gigabit ethernet

From: Nivedita Singhvi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:31:54 -0800

Cheng Jin wrote:
> 
> I read somewhere that Intel SMP has cpu0 taking care of 
> all the hardware interrupts, but I don't know about softirqs.
> I think all softirqs related to the GbE are handled by the
> same cpu.

For incoming network packets, the hw interrupt handler simply
schedules a local softirq to handle the rest of the input
processing. So the softirq will execute on the same
CPU that the hw interrupt came in on.

thanks,
Nivedita