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Date:	Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:45:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	therbert@...gle.com
Cc:	yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	andi@...stfloor.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, shemminger@...tta.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v2: Patch 1/3] net: hand off skb list to other cpu to
 submit to upper layer

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
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?
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