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Message-Id: <20080719.002656.186841207.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:26:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: kaber@...sh.net
Cc: shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13]: net: Implement simple sw TX hashing.
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:21:27 +0200
> Actually I think we could just make the number of tx queues of
> virtual devices match the lower device and use the unencapsulated
> packets for queue selection.
>
> Of course that would require not to perform queue selection
> again on the real device. For VLANs, macvlan etc. that don't
> do any locking internally that would probably make sense.
Agreed.
> Not sure about PPPoE.
PPPOE just sends down to dev_queue_xmit() with the new device
after encapsulating, and the network header is set correctly.
Therefore this case can just be left as-is.
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