Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753413AbZCNCU3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:20:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752677AbZCNCUH (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:20:07 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47447 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752500AbZCNCUG (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:20:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090313.191951.228619450.davem@davemloft.net> To: therbert@google.com Cc: yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, andi@firstfloor.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, shemminger@vyatta.com Subject: Re: [RFC v2: Patch 1/3] net: hand off skb list to other cpu to submit to upper layer From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <65634d660903131724s49009177pdc11005aa76a4b56@mail.gmail.com> References: <65634d660903131459m645eb468y3ad850a1fd56d447@mail.gmail.com> <20090313.151913.21135937.davem@davemloft.net> <65634d660903131724s49009177pdc11005aa76a4b56@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 15 From: Tom Herbert Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:24:10 -0700 > Enabling HW multi-queue has somewhat higher CPU > utilization though, the extra device interrupt load is not coming for > free. We actually use the HW multi-queue in conjunction with our > software steering to get maximum pps (about 20% more). This is a non-intuitive observation. Using HW multiqueue should be cheaper than doing it in software, right? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/