From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:48:43 +1100
> > > What does this all mean to my GigE (dual 1.1 GHz 7455s)? Is this > > thing supposed to be able to spread irq between its cpus? > > Depends on the interrupt controller. I don't know that machine > but for example the Apple Dual G5's use an MPIC that can spread > based on an internal HW round robin scheme. This isn't always > the best idea tho for cache reasons... depends if an at what level > your caches are shared between CPUs. it's always going to be the wrong thing to do for networking cards, especially once we start doing RX flow seperation in software _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
