Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: minor update to Documentation/networking/scaling.txt

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On 08/11/2011 05:41 PM, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
Incorporate last comments about hyperthreading, interrupt coalescing and
the definition of cache domains into the network scaling document scaling.txt

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn<willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
  Documentation/networking/scaling.txt |   23 +++++++++++++++--------
  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
index 3da03c3..6197126 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ module parameter for specifying the number of hardware queues to
  configure. In the bnx2x driver, for instance, this parameter is called
  num_queues. A typical RSS configuration would be to have one receive queue
  for each CPU if the device supports enough queues, or otherwise at least
-one for each cache domain at a particular cache level (L1, L2, etc.).
+one for each memory domain, where a memory domain is a set of CPUs that
+share a particular memory level (L1, L2, NUMA node, etc.).

I'd suggest simply "share a particular level in the memory hierarchy (Cache, NUMA node, etc)" and that way you get away from people asking nitpicky questions about where cache hierarchy counting starts, and at what level caches might be shared :)

Apart from that, looks fine.

rick jones
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