netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Enable RFS sk_rxhash tracking for ipv6 sockets

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Message-ID: <1302115135.3209.134.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:38:55 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, pekkas@...core.fi, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, therbert@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Enable RFS sk_rxhash tracking for ipv6 sockets

Le mercredi 06 avril 2011 à 14:33 -0400, Neil Horman a écrit :

> Thats kind of a tricky question, are you referring to clients or servers?  Both
> should be able to use RFS as Dave notes, but since sockets in NFS clients tend to be per
> mount, rather than per application (as RFS nominally expects when doing flow
> steering), theres likely to be some conflict in where RFS decides to steer
> packets for that NFS socket  as different applications on different cpus make
> use of the same socket.

Yes, maybe there are some updates to make NFS scale better with
multiqueue NICS [ or RPS/RFS ]



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