netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/3] net: add gro

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20121001.170405.937698761095534569.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:04:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/3] net: add gro_cells infrastructure

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:29:05 +0200

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> This adds a new include file (include/net/gro_cells.h), to bring GRO
> (Generic Receive Offload) capability to tunnels, in a modular way.
> 
> Because tunnels receive path is lockless, and GRO adds a serialization
> using a napi_struct, I chose to add an array of up to
> DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RSS_QUEUES cells, so that multi queue devices wont be
> slowed down because of GRO layer.
> 
> skb_get_rx_queue() is used as selector.
> 
> In the future, we might add optional fanout capabilities, using rxhash
> for example.
> 
> With help from Ben Hutchings who reminded me
> netif_get_num_default_rss_queues() function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html