Re: SMP Re-ordering ?

Yan,

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Yan-Fa Li wrote:

> However, a network device I'm testing between my hosts
> keeps seeing re-ordered TCP sessions.  When I reboot and
> specify maxcpus=1 and re-run the test I get none.
>

Strange indeed.

> Am I doing something really wrong here or does this
> workaround no longer work ?
>

IRQ affinity should work and so should NAPI.
How are you proving packets are re-ordered? Could it be the device
driver?

cheers,
jamal