Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756827AbZCNSpt (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:45:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756227AbZCNSph (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:45:37 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:37877 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754441AbZCNSpg (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:45:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090314.114522.19720687.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: <65634d660903141115w7e164134ycece307f041e93a9@mail.gmail.com> References: <65634d660903131724s49009177pdc11005aa76a4b56@mail.gmail.com> <20090313.191951.228619450.davem@davemloft.net> <65634d660903141115w7e164134ycece307f041e93a9@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: 739 Lines: 16 From: Tom Herbert Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:15:21 -0700 > I suppose it may be counter-intuitive, but I am not making a general > claim. I would only suggest that these software hacks could be a very > good approximation or substitute for hardware functionality. This is > a generic way to get more performance out of deficient or lower end > NICs. They certainly could. Why don't you post the current version of your patches so we have something concrete to discuss? -- 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/