From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] net: save RX queue number in sock for dev_pick_tx() use Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:45:29 +0100 Message-ID: <1282668329.2302.8.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <1282640519-15541-1-git-send-email-xiaosuo@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , Alexey Kuznetsov , "Pekka Savola (ipv6)" , James Morris , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , Patrick McHardy , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Changli Gao Return-path: Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:49586 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755719Ab0HXQpf (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:45:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1282640519-15541-1-git-send-email-xiaosuo@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 17:01 +0800, Changli Gao wrote: > For the packets sent out from a local server socket, we can use the queue > from which the packets from the client socket are received. > > It may help on a TCP or UDP server. Because I don't have a multiqueue NIC, > I don't even test it. [...] There are some fairly cheap 1G multiqueue NICs around now (and even several of the ARM embedded Ethernet controllers support multiqueue). Could you compare this with my patch in ? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.