Please consider these patches for 2.6.23 inclusion. This patchset is an updated version of previous multiqueue network device support patches. The general approach of introducing a new API for multiqueue network devices to register with the stack has remained. The changes include adding a round-robin qdisc, heavily based on sch_prio, which will allow queueing to hardware with no OS-enforced queuing policy. sch_prio still has the multiqueue code in it, but has a Kconfig option to compile it out of the qdisc. This allows people with hardware containing scheduling policies to use sch_rr (round-robin), and others without scheduling policies in hardware to continue using sch_prio if they wish to have some notion of scheduling priority.
The patches being sent are split into Documentation, Qdisc changes, and core stack changes. The requested e1000 changes are still being resolved, and will be sent at a later date. I did not modify other users of netif_queue_stopped() in net/core/netpoll.c, net/core/dev.c, or net/core/pktgen.c, since no classification occurs for the skb being sent to the device. Therefore, packets should always be ending up in queue 0, so there's no need to check the subqueue status either. The patches to iproute2 for tc will be sent separately, to support sch_rr. -- PJ Waskiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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
