Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2]: Remote softirq invocation infrastructure. | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:29:21 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 23:48 -0700, David Miller wrote: > Jens Axboe has written some hacks for the block layer that allow > queueing softirq work to remote cpus. In the context of the block > layer he used this facility to trigger the softirq block I/O > completion on the same cpu where the I/O was submitted. >
> Jen's, as stated, has block layer uses for this. I intend to use this > for receive side flow seperation on non-multiqueue network cards. And > Steffen Klassert has a set of IPSEC parallelization changes that can > very likely make use of this.
What's the benefit that you (or Jens) sees from migrating softirqs from specific cpu's to others?
Daniel
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