netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] soreuseport: infrastructure

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:33:35 -0800
From:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To:	PJ Waskiewicz <WaskiewiczJr@...gle.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...kandruth.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] soreuseport: infrastructure

> It would be pretty neat if the CPU layout could make it to this level, so
> that you could choose queues based on the shared cache layout.  e.g. if
> cores 0 and 2 shared the same L2 cache, then you can be intelligent about
> landing flows on those queues bound to those cores.  Essentially the info
> that feeds the cpuid utility being used to make even smarter decisions of
> flow tuning.
>
Indeed.  I think Ben's cpu_rmap code already pretty much does this...

> Cheers,
> -PJ
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