netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sched: use xps information for qdisc NUMA affinity

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Message-Id: <20101201.124925.200368461.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:49:25 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	therbert@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sched: use xps information for qdisc NUMA
 affinity

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:14:37 +0100

> [PATCH net-next-2.6] sched: use xps information for qdisc NUMA affinity
> 
> Allocate qdisc memory according to NUMA properties of cpus included in
> xps map.
> 
> To be effective, qdisc should be (re)setup after changes
> of /sys/class/net/eth<n>/queues/tx-<n>/xps_cpus
> 
> I added a numa_node field in struct netdev_queue, containing NUMA node
> if all cpus included in xps_cpus share same node, else -1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

I think this is good enough to cook in net-next-2.6

Please use "net sched: " instead of just plain "sched: " in your
commit header lines so that people don't confuse such changes
with process scheduler ones :-)
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