[ofa-general] [RFC] Receive Core Afinnity (aka RSS) support

[Eli Cohen]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:28:41PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Can you point me to Ethernet driver in the mainline kernel that implements 
> multiple receive queues?
I don't know of any.

> I am trying to think if this design will allow to use later also multiple 
> send queues, eg in the spirit of Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt, 
> what's your thinking? grepping on NETIF_F_MULTI_QUEUE under drivers/net 
> does not retrieve many hits, so I wasn't sure if this is the current 
> practice for multiple send queues nowadays.
>
This RFC refers only to multiple queues in the receive flow and should
not have any impact on future multiple send queue implementation.