From: Don Porter <porterde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:05:34 -0500 > It seems to me that with 4 independent NICs and plenty of CPUs to > spare, I ought to be able to assign one softirq daemon to each NIC > rather than funnelling all of the traffic through 1 or 2. Traffic doesn't get distributed unless the NIC has support for RX flow seperation and PCI MSI-X interrupts. Your NICs do not. So no matter how hard you try, each NIC is going to have it's packets processed essentially on one cpu. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
