netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] rfs: Receive Flow Steering

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Date:	Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:40:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	therbert@...gle.com
Cc:	davem@...emloft.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rfs: Receive Flow Steering

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:56:50 -0700 (PDT)

> @@ -2342,6 +2387,10 @@ static int enqueue_to_backlog(struct sk_buff *skb, int cpu)
>  		if (queue->input_pkt_queue.qlen) {
>  enqueue:
>  			__skb_queue_tail(&queue->input_pkt_queue, skb);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
> +			*qtail = queue->input_queue_head +
> +			    queue->input_pkt_queue.qlen;
> +#endif
>  			rps_unlock(queue);
>  			local_irq_restore(flags);
>  			return NET_RX_SUCCESS;
 ...
> @@ -2801,6 +2864,9 @@ static void flush_backlog(void *arg)
>  		if (skb->dev == dev) {
>  			__skb_unlink(skb, &queue->input_pkt_queue);
>  			kfree_skb(skb);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
> +			queue->input_queue_head++;
> +#endif
>  		}
>  	rps_unlock(queue);
>  }

Please abstract these behind inline functions that live in
some header file, so we don't need to continually pepper
dev.c with countless ifdefs.

If you fix this and the kernel command line --> sysctl thing
Eric pointed out, I think I can apply this to net-next-2.6

Thanks.

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