netdev - Re: new NAPI interface broken

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Message-Id: <20071016.013146.28785302.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:31:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	ossthema@...ibm.com, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, themann@...ibm.com, raisch@...ibm.com,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: new NAPI interface broken

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:28:56 +1000

> Allright, so that's an out of tree userland thingy... (which may well
> work on ppc too I suppose). Definitely not installed by default by my
> distro so IRQs from the network cards on all x86's using ubuntu gutsy at
> least are spread to all CPUs :-)

But the thing does treat network interfaces differently from
other devices.

Arjan ran over to my table at kernel summit when I presented this
topic to the audience, to remind me of all of this and he should be
included in on any discussions about this topic. :-)

I've CC:'d him.
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