diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 473740f97809..78e8c11e7f20 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: b64b73d7d0c480f75684519c6134e79d50c1b341 +refs/heads/master: 186c6bbced722cfeff041d2a1264c95f5d042050 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/trunk/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index 8ce7c30e7230..fe67b5c79f0f 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/trunk/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