Re: [RFC v2: Patch 1/3] net: hand off skb list to other cpu to submit to upper layer

From: Tom Herbert
Date: Mon Mar 16 2009 - 12:54:14 EST


On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Tom Herbert <therbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 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.
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