On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:53 -0700, David Miller wrote: > There are of course other uses for multiple TX queues, and in > particular my finer-grained locking example. > > I'm still amazed the TX locking issue wasn't clear to you, > too nervous about tonight's game? :)
It's too depressing - so i came back here for a break ;-> I cant even stand Don Cherry today. As a side note: You will have to do a lot of surgery to the current code to make tx run on multi CPUs. It needs some experimenting to get right. And i am begining to like Herberts changes ;-> I am not against multi-rings; iam just suggesting an alternative approach which is less disruptive. In regards to the tx lock - my thinking is resolving that via tx batching. You amortize the lock over multiple packets. There may be value in fine grained locking - i need to think about it. A small extension to the batching patches will provide the change i am proposing. cheers, jamal - 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
