netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb

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Date:	Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:30:02 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb_private

On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 09:13 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:

> BTW: My ultimate goal is making ifb a multi-queue NIC, and the number
> of queues is equal to the number of the possible CPUs.


My view is this is going to be tricky because:
- we use tasklets. When we  reschedule we can end up on a differrent
cpu. 
-I dont see any point in having a separate softIRQ 
- and if you do use other mechanisms it would require a lot more
testing since there are quiet a few use cases of ifb

cheers,
jamal


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