netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: multiqueue vlan devices

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Date:	Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:49:37 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, jarkao2@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: multiqueue vlan devices

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> vlan devices are currently not multi-queue capable.
> 
> We can do that with a new rtnl_link_ops method,
> get_tx_queues(), called from rtnl_create_link()
> 
> This new method gets num_tx_queues/real_num_tx_queues
> from real device.
> 
> register_vlan_device() is also handled.

Looks great. This will also make it easier to test multiqueue
scheduling without a multiqueue-capable device :)
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