netdev - using huge numbers of queues

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Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:59:49 -0700
From:	Andrew Grover <andy.grover@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: using huge numbers of queues

Hi Herbert,

At NetConf, you made a passing remark about wanting lots of queues,
even 1-per-socket. Have you thought further about how we would use so
many?

Thinking about this reminded me of VJ's 2006 netchannel concept, which
although not adopted, was pretty interesting. Would having 1 queue per
socket (or at least 1 per process) and hw that is able to filter
individual flows (I think the Intel 82599 can do this now for up to
128) perhaps make netchannels workable? At least this would get all
processing out of int/bh and into process context, if not userspace,
no?

Regards -- Andy
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