From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:54:47 -0400

> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:48 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> >   > RX queues - yes, I can see;  TX queues, it doesnt make sense to put
> > > different rings on different CPUs.
> > 
> > To what extent might that preclude some cachelines bouncing hither and 
> > yon between the CPUs?
> 
> I think the bouncing will exist a lot more with the multi CPUs. But one
> would assume if you go that path, you would also parallelize the stack
> on egress to reduce such an effect. I guess the point i am not seeing is
> the value. The tx, once hitting the NIC is an IO issue not a CPU issue.

Disagred, that single TX lock kills cpu cycles.

If all of the TX queues are independantly programmable of one
another, the single TX lock kills performance.

> off for the night.

Enjoy the game.
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