Re: [PATCH net-next v6 3/9] kbuild: document RPS/XPS network Kconfig options

From: David Decotigny
Date: Wed Nov 16 2011 - 20:55:01 EST


On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Ben Hutchings
<bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 14:15 -0800, David Decotigny wrote:
>> This adds a description of RPS/XPS options and allow them to be
>> changed at make menuconfig time.
>
> I'm not sure why you think this is necessary.

On my copy, make menuconfig doesn't let me change these CONFIG_ items,
unless I add the string after "boolean", which this patch does. I
agree, the help I added after is pure cosmetic.

>>  config RFS_ACCEL
[...]
> RFS refers to directing RX packet processsing of specific flows based on

Oops, you are right. I got confused and somehow read "RPS" instead of
"RFS" here. Thank you for the great explanation!

Will update this commit message. I don't know how patchwork handles
the follow-ups (it didn't work yesterday), so I'm afraid I will have
to send yet another batch of updates...

Regards,
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