Re: [E1000-devel] Transmission limit

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 08:46, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:31:41AM -0500, jamal wrote:
> 
> > >  Also from what I understand new HW and MSI can help in the case where
> > >  pass objects between CPU. Did I dream or did someone tell me that S2IO 
> > >  could have several TX ring that could via MSI be routed to proper cpu?
> > 
> > I am wondering if the per CPU tx/rx irqs are valuable at all. They sound
> > like more hell to maintain.
> 
> On the TX path you'd have qdiscs to deal with as well, no?

I think management of it would be non-trivial in SMP. Youd have to start
playing stupid loadbalancing tricks which would reduce the value of
existence of tx irqs to begin with. 

cheers,
jamal