Re: gigabit ethernet

[Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Cheng Jin wrote:
> I read somewhere that Intel SMP has cpu0 taking care of 
> all the hardware interrupts, but I don't know about softirqs.
> I think all softirqs related to the GbE are handled by the
> same cpu.

For incoming network packets, the hw interrupt handler simply
schedules a local softirq to handle the rest of the input
processing. So the softirq will execute on the same
CPU that the hw interrupt came in on.

thanks,
Nivedita