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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-10-06 16:15:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-10-06 16:15:10 -0700 |
| commit | 3ee72ca99288f1de95ec9c570e43f531c8799f06 (patch) | |
| tree | 1199d129cb94b128eb6029d5fcc3ff0d4900b067 /Documentation | |
| parent | 29cf7a30f8a0ce4af2406d93d5a332099be26923 (diff) | |
| parent | 186c6bbced722cfeff041d2a1264c95f5d042050 (diff) | |
Merge git://github.com/davem330/net
* git://github.com/davem330/net:
net: fix typos in Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge
netfilter: Use proper rwlock init function
tcp: properly update lost_cnt_hint during shifting
tcp: properly handle md5sig_pool references
macvlan/macvtap: Fix unicast between macvtap interfaces in bridge mode
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/scaling.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index 8ce7c30e7230..fe67b5c79f0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ applying a filter to each packet that assigns it to one of a small number of logical flows. Packets for each flow are steered to a separate receive queue, which in turn can be processed by separate CPUs. This mechanism is generally known as “Receive-side Scaling” (RSS). The goal of RSS and -the other scaling techniques to increase performance uniformly. +the other scaling techniques is to increase performance uniformly. Multi-queue distribution can also be used for traffic prioritization, but that is not the focus of these techniques. @@ -186,10 +186,10 @@ are steered using plain RPS. Multiple table entries may point to the same CPU. Indeed, with many flows and few CPUs, it is very likely that a single application thread handles flows with many different flow hashes. -rps_sock_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU for -flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. Each -table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg and -sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() +rps_sock_flow_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU +for flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. +Each table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg +and sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() and tcp_splice_read()). When the scheduler moves a thread to a new CPU while it has outstanding |