netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: Distribute transmission of FCoE traffic in 82599

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Message-Id: <20090903.200915.157113657.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:09:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, yi.zou@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: Distribute transmission of FCoE
 traffic in 82599

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:56:10 -0700

> From: Yi Zou <yi.zou@...el.com>
> 
> This adds a simple selection of a FCoE tx queue based on the current cpu id to
> distribute transmission of FCoE traffic evenly among multiple FCoE transmit
> queues.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.

Does it matter that arbitrary programs or other stacks could transmit
ETH_P_FCOE traffic as well?  Would that interfere with how this offload
hardware works now that you're directing all ETH_P_FCOE traffic to
FCOE rings?
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