netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] AF_PACKET fanout support

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Message-Id: <20110705.182041.1392492274453963565.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	therbert@...gle.com
Cc:	victor@...iniac.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] AF_PACKET fanout support

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 17:46:36 -0700

> Thanks for these patches!  Is it possible you could use an alternative
> term than "fanout"?  I think this may be more often associated with a
> transmit operation (e.g. multicast fanout).

I've never heard such terminology myself.

Sorry, the fanout name is staying :-)

> Also, another useful mode of steering would be to steer packets to a
> socket which was recently processed by a thread running on the same
> CPU; somewhat analogous to RFS (cc'ed WIllem Bruijn who is already
> working on this I believe).

This sounds like a good way to overload a local socket and prevent
pushing the work to lesser used sockets on other cpus.
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