On Mon, 2007-24-09 at 15:57 -0700, Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote: > I've looked at that as a candidate to use. The lock for enqueue would > be needed when actually placing the skb into the appropriate software > queue for the qdisc, so it'd be quick.
The enqueue is easy to comprehend. The single device queue lock should suffice. The dequeue is interesting: Maybe you can point me to some doc or describe to me the dequeue aspect; are you planning to have an array of txlocks per, one per ring? How is the policy to define the qdisc queues locked/mapped to tx rings? 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