Re: [PATCH 19/24] net, diet: Make RPS configurable

From: BjÃrn Mork
Date: Tue May 06 2014 - 04:32:34 EST


Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Multiple receive queues are not needed on small systems,
> so allow disabling them.
>
> This is already disabled with !SMP, but it also makes
> sense to disable on very small SMP systems (like
> dual core SOC)

Such a pointless design still doesn't mean that you *have* to enable
SMP, does it? How much would you save all over the kernel by simply
disabling SMP?

As for the system design: It seems to me that it would be more useful to
replace one of the CPU cores with some RAM...


BjÃrn
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