netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/5] ifb: add multiqueue support

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Message-ID: <1292416486.2067.7.camel@mojatatu>
Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:34:46 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] ifb: add multiqueue support

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 22:43 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
> Each ifb NIC has nr_cpu_ids rx queues and nr_cpu_ids queues. Packets
> transmitted to ifb are enqueued to the corresponding per cpu tx queues,
> and processed in the corresponding per cpu tasklet latter.
> 
> The stats are converted to the u64 ones.
> 
> tq is a stack variable now. It makes ifb_q_private smaller and tx queue
> locked only once in ri_tasklet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>

I will look closely at this one later and catchup with the discussion
you had with Eric.

cheers,
jamal

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