On Thu, 2007-07-06 at 09:08 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

There could be bad packet reordering with this (like some SMP routers used to do).

You can avoid re-ordering if you guarantee that "related" flows always
end up on the same CPU via say tc filters i.e i dont think just a 5
tuple classification would be sufficient.

cheers,
jamal