netdev - Re: e1000 softirq load balancing

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Message-Id: <20081014.165109.199128881.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:51:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	porterde@...utexas.edu
Cc:	linux-net@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000 softirq load balancing

From: Don Porter <porterde@...utexas.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:46:11 -0500

> Would you mind giving me a bit of intuition why I can't have a 1:1
> mapping of CPUs to NICs?

I didn't say that.

I said that without HW flow seperation support, you can only
expect N cpus to be busy where N is the number of NICs you
have.
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