Subject: Re: rps: some comments

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:27:31 +0100

Le 08/01/2010 01:07, Tom Herbert a écrit :
> I kind of like the way it is right now, which is to enqueue even on
> the local CPU.  The advantage of that is that all the packets received
> in the napi run are dispatched to all the participating CPUs before
> any are processed, this is good for average and worst case latency on
> a packet burst.

I see... this makes sense, thanks.

Do you know if some non multi queue NIC would be able to provide us
a suitable hash to fill skb->rxhash in NIC driver itself ?