From: Peter P.Waskiewicz Jr. <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:50:52 -0700
> From: Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr. <[email protected]>
>
> Added an API and associated supporting routines for multiqueue network devices.
> This allows network devices supporting multiple TX queues to configure each
> queue within the netdevice and manage each queue independantly. Changes to the
> PRIO Qdisc also allow a user to map multiple flows to individual TX queues,
> taking advantage of each queue on the device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <[email protected]>
This looks definitely better than the previous implementation,
myself and others will review this in more depth though.
> + alloc_size = (sizeof(struct net_device_subqueue) * queue_count);
> +
> + p = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!p) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "alloc_netdev: Unable to allocate queues.\n");
> + return NULL;
> + }
> +
> + dev->egress_subqueue = (struct net_device_subqueue *)p;
No need for a cast, 'p' is "void *".
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