Re: [E1000-devel] Transmission limit

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:25:54AM -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. 

You mean the management of qdiscs would be non-trivial?

Probably the idea of these kinds of tricks is to skip the qdisc step
altogether.


--L