From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Ledford Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/3] IPoIB TX NAPI Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 13:24:48 -0400 Message-ID: <1508952288.3325.34.camel@redhat.com> References: <20171016054901.32479-1-leon@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20171016054901.32479-1-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Kamal Heib List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 08:48 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > It is very common in modern network devices to use NAPI in RX and TX, > in the UD/TX flows IPoIB uses a polling mechanism (not as it does in > the CM mode). > > Except of the motivation to use the same mechanism for IPoIB as for > netdevices, there are number of issues in current polling mechanism: > * SKBs that are kept longer than they should be and there are > applications > that warn about that (some firewalls for example). > * Statistics that are not updated to the real value. It blocks > support > for time synchronization protocols over the IPoIB protocol, like > PTP > and so on. > * The TX in CM mode already uses NAPI, there is no reason to keep > two > different ways for TX one for UD and one for the CM. > > The patches are available in the git repository at: > git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/leon/linux-rdma.git > tags/rdma-next-2017-10-16-2 > > Thanks Thanks, series applied. -- Doug Ledford GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html