netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] macvlan: add multiqueue capability

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Date:	Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:10:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] macvlan: add multiqueue capability

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:11:45 +0200

> macvlan devices are currently not multi-queue capable.
> 
> We can do that defining rtnl_link_ops method,
> get_tx_queues(), called from rtnl_create_link()
> 
> This new method gets num_tx_queues/real_num_tx_queues
> from lower device.
> 
> macvlan_get_tx_queues() is a copy of vlan_get_tx_queues().
> 
> Because macvlan_start_xmit() has to update netdev_queue
> stats only (and not dev->stats), I chose to change
> tx_errors/tx_aborted_errors accounting to tx_dropped,
> since netdev_queue structure doesnt define tx_errors /
> tx_aborted_errors.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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