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

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:22:30 -0700
From:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <hadi@...erus.ca>
Cc:	<Robert.Olsson@...a.slu.se>, "Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@...el.com>,
	<Leonid.Grossman@...erion.com>, <kaber@...sh.net>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

> From: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:33:22 -0400
> 
> > So in such a case (assuming 8 rings), One model is creating 
> 4 netdev 
> > devices each based on single tx/rx ring and register set and then 
> > having a mother netdev (what you call the bond) that feeds these 
> > children netdev based on some qos parametrization is very sensible.
> 
> Why all of this layering and overhead for something so BLOODY 
> SIMPLE?!?!?
> 

I am currently packing up the newest patches against 2.6.23, with
feedback from Patrick.  The delay in posting them was a weird panic with
the loopback device, which I just found.  Let me run a test cycle or
two, and I'll send them today for review, including an e1000 patch to
show how to use the API.

Cheers,
-PJ Waskiewicz
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