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Message-ID: <1263607893.17815.114.camel@localhost> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:11:33 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] rps: Receive Packet Steering On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 14:56 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:56:23 -0800 (PST) > Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com> wrote: [...] > > The CPU masks is set on a per device basis in the sysfs variable > > /sys/class/net/<device>/rps_cpus. This is a set of canonical bit maps for > > each NAPI nstance of the device. For example: > > > > echo "0b 0b0 0b00 0b000" > /sys/class/net/eth0/rps_cpus > > Why not make a kobject out of cpus which would add subdirectory. > This would keep interface consistent with the one value per file > semantic of sysfs. Do you mean a kobject per NAPI context, each initially with a rps_cpus attribute holding a CPU mask, or a kobject per CPU, each with an attribute specifying which NAPI contexts it does work for? (Personally I'd favour the first.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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