netdev - Re: [RFC] act_cpu: redirect skb receiving to a special CPU.

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Date:	Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:00:15 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] act_cpu: redirect skb receiving to a special CPU.

Le samedi 05 juin 2010 à 10:26 -0400, jamal a écrit :

> Indeed it is AMD specific - but my view is if i was using AMD that would
> be more efficient way of doing it; i.e IPI is the lowest common
> denominator which works on all archs. Essentially what i am saying is
> this would be a "inter-cpu messaging netdev" and i could replace its
> send/recv parts from what we do in the RPS path right now to one that
> uses AMD hypertransport etc.

You do realize this should be discussed on lkml , of course ?



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