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Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2023 09:21:11 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/2] net: Use SMP threads for backlog NAPI.
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:57:34 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> As of now Jakub isn't eager to have it and my testing/ convincing is
> quite limited. If nobody else yells that something like that would be
> helpful I would simply go and convince PeterZ/tglx to apply 2/2 of this
> series.

As tempting as code removal would be, we can still try to explore the
option of letting backlog processing run in threads - as an opt-in on
normal kernels and force it on RT?

But it would be good to wait ~2 weeks before moving forward, if you
don't mind, various core folks keep taking vacations..