Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758847AbZCPQyP (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:54:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756434AbZCPQxz (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:53:55 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:28710 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754961AbZCPQxy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:53:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to: cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-system-of-record; b=eskPh4Ebv+ZXQpuuA9BlLeXPfi85abqrzTnCeCmydzgUBT28sWl+btjqLX8fFjNeG 68t62jF62YPSqtRHJakxQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090314.114522.19720687.davem@davemloft.net> References: <65634d660903131724s49009177pdc11005aa76a4b56@mail.gmail.com> <20090313.191951.228619450.davem@davemloft.net> <65634d660903141115w7e164134ycece307f041e93a9@mail.gmail.com> <20090314.114522.19720687.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:53:47 -0700 Message-ID: <65634d660903160953o563385f8p29c0da5e3128f6f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC v2: Patch 1/3] net: hand off skb list to other cpu to submit to upper layer From: Tom Herbert To: David Miller 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 20 On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM, David Miller wrote: > > 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? I'll do that. -- 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/