Re: [PATCH 0/2] AF_PACKET fanout support

From: Tom Herbert <redacted>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 17:46:36 -0700

Thanks for these patches!  Is it possible you could use an alternative
term than "fanout"?  I think this may be more often associated with a
transmit operation (e.g. multicast fanout).

I've never heard such terminology myself.

Sorry, the fanout name is staying :-)

Also, another useful mode of steering would be to steer packets to a
socket which was recently processed by a thread running on the same
CPU; somewhat analogous to RFS (cc'ed WIllem Bruijn who is already
working on this I believe).

This sounds like a good way to overload a local socket and prevent
pushing the work to lesser used sockets on other cpus.