netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

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Date:	Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:04:03 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org, auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

On Thu, 2007-07-06 at 09:08 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> 
> There could be bad packet reordering with this (like some SMP routers used to do).

You can avoid re-ordering if you guarantee that "related" flows always
end up on the same CPU via say tc filters i.e i dont think just a 5
tuple classification would be sufficient.

cheers,
jamal




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