netdev - Re: htb parallelism on multi-core platforms

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Message-Id: <20090417.043151.61240311.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:31:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	radu.rendec@...s.ro
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: htb parallelism on multi-core platforms

From: Radu Rendec <radu.rendec@...s.ro>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:40:44 +0300

> Is there any (simple) approach to distribute htb work (for one
> interface) on multiple cpus?

HTB acts upon global state, so anything that goes into a particular
device's HTB ruleset is going to be single threaded.

There really isn't any way around this.
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