Re: SMP code / network stack

2008-01-10 Thread Kok, Auke
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 03:26:59PM +, Jeba Anandhan escreveu: >> Hi Eric, >> Thanks for the reply. I have one more doubt. For example, if we have 2 >> processor and 4 ethernet cards. Only CPU0 does all work through 8 cards. >> If we set the affinity to each eth

Re: SMP code / network stack

2008-01-10 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 03:26:59PM +, Jeba Anandhan escreveu: > Hi Eric, > Thanks for the reply. I have one more doubt. For example, if we have 2 > processor and 4 ethernet cards. Only CPU0 does all work through 8 cards. > If we set the affinity to each ethernet card as CPU number, will it be >

Re: SMP code / network stack

2008-01-10 Thread Jeba Anandhan
Hi Eric, Thanks for the reply. I have one more doubt. For example, if we have 2 processor and 4 ethernet cards. Only CPU0 does all work through 8 cards. If we set the affinity to each ethernet card as CPU number, will it be efficient?. Will this be default behavior? # cat /proc/interrupts

Re: SMP code / network stack

2008-01-10 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:05:46 + Jeba Anandhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > If a server has multiple processors and N number of ethernet cards, is > it possible to handle transmission by each processor separately? .In > other words, each processor will be responsible for tx of few e

SMP code / network stack

2008-01-10 Thread Jeba Anandhan
Hi All, If a server has multiple processors and N number of ethernet cards, is it possible to handle transmission by each processor separately? .In other words, each processor will be responsible for tx of few ethernet cards?. Example: Server has 4 processors and 8 ethernet cards. is it possibl