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Description of problem: RPS Patch (Receive Packet Steering) from Tom Herbert brings huge improvement to servers, with massive network traffic Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL6 How reproducible: N/A Steps to Reproduce: 1. N/A 2. N/A 3. N/A Actual results: Patch does not seem to be integrated in the current RHEL6 Beta Expected results: Patch should be included Additional info: Description of the patch with all benefits and caveats can be found on: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/3/12/6271831 respectively in the commit message of Tom Herbert: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a9627f2649a02bea165cfd529d7bcb625c2fcad
Please include additionally RFS (Receive Flow Steering) patch as well - its a extension to the RPS patch and will help improve handling network traffic on a very busy server Additional information are available on: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/4/17/6274925/thread The commit message from Tom Herbert: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.36.y.git;a=commit;h=fec5e652e58fa6017b2c9e06466cb2a6538de5b4 I think there were already some fixes applied to the patch, but that's the basic commit, which made it into the kernel
This is a dup of bz 620680. I've got a test build linked in there if you want to test it out. If you can verify its working properly I'll post it internally for review. Thanks! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 620680 ***