From: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:52:11 -0700
> I think you're misunderstanding. These NICs still have only one > physical port, so sending or receiving real packets onto a physical > wire is fundamentally serialized. The steering of packets to receive > queues is done right after the packets are received from the wire -- > in fact it can be done as soon as the NIC has parsed enough of the > headers to make a decision, which might be before the full packet has > even been received. The steering is no more of a bottleneck than the > physical link is. Yep, that's right. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
