[Click] [PATCH] patches for linux 2.6.24

Joonwoo Park joonwpark81 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 10:32:52 EDT 2008


2008/4/22, Adam Greenhalgh <a.greenhalgh at cs.ucl.ac.uk>:
> Joonwoo,
>
> Thats great news ! Well done.
>
> The move to 2.6.24 brings with it the ability to support multiple
> receive and transmit queues on newer intel hardware. For example you
> might want to modify rx_refill to :-
>
>  int                     (*rx_refill)(struct net_device*, int
> ring_index, struct sk_buff**);
>
> but perhaps it would be better to have a new function e.g.
>
>  int                     (*rx_refill_mq)(struct net_device*, struct sk_buff**);
>
> Does anyone have any comments ?
>
> Adam

Thanks Adam,
No objection.
I'll expect your ixgbe polling driver as the first mq feature
implemented driver.
Besides, we could improve click processor affinity for SMP machine,
with binding a hardware queue to a processor core by mq feature.

Joonwoo


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