netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] Preserve queue mapping with bonding and VLAN devices

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Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:59:01 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	"\"Oleg A. Arkhangelsky\"" <sysoleg@...dex.ru>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] Preserve queue mapping with bonding and
 VLAN devices

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 18:17 +0300, "Oleg A. Arkhangelsky" wrote:
> 
> Must be applied with "[net-next-2.6 PATCH] Multiqueue support for bonding devices"
> 
> Forwarded packet goes more that once throught dev_queue_xmit() when
> using bonding or 802.1q VLAN devices, so we've lost rx-tx queue mapping
> index for real devices.
[...]

The queue mapping will normally be the same, only no longer biased by 1.
So I think a better solution would be to maintain that bias on TX as
well, or to remove the bias and reserve -1 for unknown RX queue.

We already have hardware that can do RSS across up to 128 RX queues, so
an 8-bit limit is uncomfortably close.

Ben.

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