netdev - Re: [PATCH] rps: make distributing packets fairly among all the online CPUs default

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Date:	Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:06:20 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rps: make distributing packets fairly among all the 
 online CPUs default

Le mardi 23 mars 2010 à 19:58 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :

> The sysadmins you mentioned above are Linux experters, and they know
> how to tunning the system to get the best performance, but the default
> configuration should be for the ordinary users, who don't know Linux
> much.
> 

I strongly NACK your change at this very moment, many devices run
without a linux expert to tune them, thanks.

Ordinary users dont need RPS magic in 2.6.35.

Maybe in 2.6.38+ we can reconsider this, if RPS deployment happens to be
successful, thanks to experts doing their job and reports.



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