From: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:48:59 -0700
> > RX queues - yes, I can see; TX queues, it doesnt make sense to put > > different rings on different CPUs. > > To what extent might that preclude some cachelines bouncing hither and > yon between the CPUs? I think per-TX-queue locking takes locality as another advantage. You only touch the TX descriptors for queue N, rather than a single globally shared one. Same goes for RX. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
