Re: [RFC v2: Patch 1/3] net: hand off skb list to other cpu tosubmit to upper layer

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Mar 14 2009 - 14:45:49 EST


From: Tom Herbert <therbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:15:21 -0700

> I suppose it may be counter-intuitive, but I am not making a general
> claim. I would only suggest that these software hacks could be a very
> good approximation or substitute for hardware functionality. This is
> a generic way to get more performance out of deficient or lower end
> NICs.

They certainly could. Why don't you post the current version
of your patches so we have something concrete to discuss?
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