Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Kernel interfaces for multiqueue aware socket | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:56:07 +0100 |
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Le mercredi 15 décembre 2010 à 21:48 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit : > Le mercredi 15 décembre 2010 à 12:02 -0800, Fenghua Yu a écrit : > > From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> > > > > Multiqueue and multicore provide packet parallel processing methodology. > > Current kernel and network drivers place one queue on one core. But the higher > > level socket doesn't know multiqueue. Current socket only can receive or send > > packets through one network interfaces. In some cases e.g. multi bpf filter > > tcpdump and snort, a lot of contentions come from socket operations like ring > > buffer. Even if the application itself has been fully parallelized and run on > > multi-core systems and NIC handlex tx/rx in multiqueue in parallel, network layer > > and NIC device driver assemble packets to a single, serialized queue. Thus the > > application cannot actually run in parallel in high speed.
I forgot to say that your patches are not against net-next-2.6, and not apply anyway.
Always use David trees for networking patches...
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