From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:54:49 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Explain recent advancements better. X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.eti.br/?p=cascardo%2Fkernel%2Fslides%2F.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f4619770cba88e3f6451fba46016f91ef666f4a9 Explain recent advancements better. --- diff --git a/15net/net b/15net/net index d64afd7..491e84b 100644 --- a/15net/net +++ b/15net/net @@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ # Other recent changes * Some members moved to netdev\\_queue to increase cache-line usage -* GRO/GSO -* Multi-queue support -* RPS - Packet Steering +* GRO/GSO - Handle hardware checksum acceleration +* Multi-queue support, for devices with multiple queues, so they can be handled + in different CPUs +* RPS - Receive Packet Steering, which distributes protocol processing amongst + multiple CPUs in case of a single device, single queue system +* RFS - Receive Flow Steering, which tries to handle the packet in the CPU where + the application is running