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... you can still use 1 TX/1 RX ring on -HEAD. If we turn on RSS in
the driver and have it hardware hash things, then the netisr input
routine will throw it into the right per-CPU queue and it'll
distribute the work.

(Someone could twist my arm to do this.)


-adrian