netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiple queue hardware support

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Message-Id: <20070620.145140.124887325.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:51:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ossthema@...ibm.com
Cc:	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	raisch@...ibm.com, osstklei@...ibm.com, themann@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiple queue hardware support

From: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:58:43 +0200

> to me it seems that this patch set only include multiple transmit
> queue support (for qdisc). Am I right with this observation? If so,
> are there also plans to support multiple receive queues to allow the
> queues to be processed in parallel on different CPUs via a standard
> interface? Currently, some drivers use "fake netdevices" to feed
> netif_rx_schedule().

Yes.

See the "struct net_poll" patches that went out several months
ago, that will help things out in that area.
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