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Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011 à 21:59 -0500, David Miller a écrit :

> They shouldn't be, they are internal dependency descriptions and should
> be invisible to the user.

Unless someone has evidence of a performance cost :)

The rps_lock() adds an atomic operation in netif_rx(), even if RPS is
not really used/configured...