netdev - Re: RFC [PATCH net-2.6 1/6] net: Scheduling softirqs between CPUSs

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Message-Id: <20080313.055322.193703258.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:53:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	therbert@...gle.com, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, maxk@...lcomm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH net-2.6 1/6] net: Scheduling softirqs between CPUSs

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:47:19 +0000

> The specific part I was referring to was:
> 
>    "This scheme can be further improved upon, if the host tells the driver what
>     CPU it wished to run a particular session on. With this information, the
>     driver can steer a session to the same CPU that the scheduler runs the
>     socket reads on, and achieve the best cache locality for both kernel and
>     user level rx processing."
> 
> So far as I'm aware, this hasn't been done.  If it has, I would love to know
> how to work with it.

That bit is not implemented, no.
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