On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 14:00 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
Yes, looks like it's hard to use NETIF_F_LLTX without breaking the u64Yes, this probably needs percpu storage (if you really want to use
statistics, may worth to use tx lock and alloc_netdev_mq().
include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h).
But percpu storage seems a bit overkill with a raising number of cpus
on typical machines.
For loopback device, its fine because we only have one lo device per
network namespace, and some workloads really hit hard this device.
But for tuntap, I am not sure ?
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