netdev - Re: [PATCH] ehea: Optional TX/RX path optimized for SMP

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sat, 3 Mar 2007 13:33:40 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Klein <tklein@...ibm.com>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@...ibm.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	Marcus Eder <meder@...ibm.com>,
	Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ehea: Optional TX/RX path optimized for SMP

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:28:28AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 04:06 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...ibm.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > Are there any concerns about this approach?
> > 
> > Yes. You should fix the NAPI code instead of trying to work
> > around it.
> 
> NAPI is being fixed but the fix will take time to get in. In the
> meantime, the solution to get something working is the workaround

If it works right now with just a little less efficiency there
is no pressing need to do workarounds until the real solution.

Besides I doubt that patch would have made .21 anyways and in .22
you might already have multiqueue NAPI.

-Andi

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html