From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D1AC6FA82 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:43:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229762AbiILPnq (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:43:46 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48446 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229687AbiILPnp (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:43:45 -0400 Received: from smtp2.nicevt.ru (smtp2.nicevt.ru [82.97.198.8]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 961E530565 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2022 08:43:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.nicevt.local Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:43:14 +0400 (MSK) From: =?utf-8?B?0JLQsNGB0LjQu9C40Lkg0KPQvNGA0LjRhdC40L0=?= To: netdev Message-ID: <927100312.1863.1662997394065.JavaMail.zimbra@nicevt.ru> Subject: RFH, is it possible to set ndo_start_xmit() cpu affinity in ethernet driver? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Zimbra 8.5.1_GA_3056 (ZimbraWebClient - GC96 (Linux)/8.5.1_GA_3056) Thread-Topic: RFH, is it possible to set ndo_start_xmit() cpu affinity in ethernet driver? Thread-Index: jc0zj4Nxt84PCfonbi622av94aQZWQ== Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Hi netdev, On the receiving side we have the opportunity to choose the CPU that will process the receive queue (RPS). On the sender side XPS selects the send queue for the given CPU, but there is no way to select the CPU on which ndo_start_xmit() will be launched. Taskset is able to bind user task, but in ndo_start_xmit() binding differs. In my case CPU0 reserved for polling kthread, because our NIC have no interrupts, therefore it is necessary. I need nothing else to run on this CPU. For example, setting CPU1 for RPS on both nodes: host1: echo 0x2 > /sys/class/net//queues/rx-0/rps_cpus host2: echo 0x2 > /sys/class/net//queues/rx-0/rps_cpus Then run iperf on two nodes: host1: taskset -c 1 iperf -s host2: taskset -c 1 iperf -c host1 After adding pr_info("cpu%d\n", smp_processor_id()); in my ndo_start_xmit() method, see in dmesg: host1: dmesg | grep cpu0 | wc -l 0 host2: dmesg | grep cpu0 | wc -l 6512 Is it possible to choose the CPU on which ndo_start_xmit() will be launched on the sender side? Kind regards, Vasiliy