netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] Receive Packet Steering

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Message-Id: <20090615.161858.00964937.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:18:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	therbert@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Receive Packet Steering

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:39:20 -0700

> There's no lock to put the call_single_data structures onto remote
> CPU's list?  Looking at generic_exec_single...

True, but hopefully that's cheaper than locking the remove
queue.

And also the latency should be much lower for actually
processing the packet.
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