From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, kumarkr@linux.ibm.com,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, gaagaan@gmail.com,
Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
rdreier@cisco.com, "Waskiewicz Jr,
Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>,
mcarlson@broadcom.com, kaber@trash.net, randy.dunlap@oracle.com,
jagana@us.ibm.com, general@lists.openfabrics.org,
mchan@broadcom.com, tgraf@suug.ch, jeff@garzik.org,
sri@us.ibm.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:15:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190726138.4264.105.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070924171411.36494656@freepuppy.rosehill>
On Mon, 2007-24-09 at 17:14 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Since we are redoing this,
> is there any way to make the whole TX path
> more lockless? The existing model seems to be more of a monitor than
> a real locking model.
What do you mean it is "more of a monitor"?
On the challenge of making it lockless:
About every NAPI driver combines the tx prunning with rx polling. If you
are dealing with tx resources on receive thread as well as tx thread,
_you need_ locking. The only other way we can do avoid it is to separate
the rx path interupts from ones on tx related resources; the last NAPI
driver that did that was tulip; i think the e1000 for a short period in
its life did the same as well. But that has been frowned on and people
have evolved away from it.
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 9:00 [PATCH 0/10 REV5] Implement skb batching and support in IPoIB/E1000 Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 9:01 ` [PATCH 1/10 REV5] [Doc] HOWTO Documentation for batching Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 18:37 ` [ofa-general] " Randy Dunlap
2007-09-17 4:10 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-09-17 4:13 ` [ofa-general] " Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 9:01 ` [PATCH 2/10 REV5] [core] Add skb_blist & support " Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 12:46 ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-17 3:51 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-09-14 9:01 ` [PATCH 3/10 REV5] [sched] Modify qdisc_run to support batching Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 12:15 ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-17 3:49 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-09-14 9:02 ` [PATCH 4/10 REV5] [ethtool] Add ethtool support Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 9:02 ` [PATCH 5/10 REV5] [IPoIB] Header file changes Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 9:03 ` [PATCH 6/10 REV5] [IPoIB] CM & Multicast changes Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 9:03 ` [PATCH 7/10 REV5] [IPoIB] Verbs changes Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 9:03 ` [PATCH 8/10 REV5] [IPoIB] Post and work completion handler changes Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 9:04 ` [PATCH 9/10 REV5] [IPoIB] Implement batching Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 9:04 ` [PATCH 10/10 REV5] [E1000] " Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 12:47 ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-17 3:56 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-11-13 21:28 ` [ofa-general] " Kok, Auke
2007-11-14 8:30 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-09-14 12:49 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/10 REV5] Implement skb batching and support in IPoIB/E1000 Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-16 23:17 ` David Miller
2007-09-17 0:29 ` jamal
2007-09-17 1:02 ` David Miller
2007-09-17 2:14 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-17 2:25 ` David Miller
2007-09-17 3:01 ` jamal
2007-09-17 3:13 ` David Miller
2007-09-17 12:51 ` jamal
2007-09-17 16:37 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2007-09-17 4:46 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-09-23 17:53 ` [PATCHES] TX batching jamal
2007-09-23 17:56 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock jamal
2007-09-23 17:58 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/4] [NET_BATCH] Introduce batching interface jamal
2007-09-23 18:00 ` [PATCH 3/4][NET_BATCH] net core use batching jamal
2007-09-23 18:02 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 4/4][NET_SCHED] kill dev->gso_skb jamal
2007-09-30 18:53 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 3/3][NET_SCHED] " jamal
2007-10-07 18:39 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 3/3][NET_BATCH] " jamal
2007-09-30 18:52 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/3][NET_BATCH] net core use batching jamal
2007-10-01 4:11 ` Bill Fink
2007-10-01 13:30 ` jamal
2007-10-02 4:25 ` [ofa-general] " Bill Fink
2007-10-02 13:20 ` jamal
2007-10-03 5:29 ` [ofa-general] " Bill Fink
2007-10-03 13:42 ` jamal
2007-10-01 10:42 ` [ofa-general] " Patrick McHardy
2007-10-01 13:21 ` jamal
2007-10-08 5:03 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-08 13:17 ` jamal
2007-10-09 3:09 ` [ofa-general] " Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-09 13:10 ` jamal
2007-10-07 18:38 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-30 18:51 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 1/4] [NET_BATCH] Introduce batching interface jamal
2007-09-30 18:54 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 1/3] " jamal
2007-10-07 18:36 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-08 9:59 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-08 13:49 ` jamal
2007-09-24 19:12 ` [ofa-general] RE: [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-09-24 22:51 ` jamal
2007-09-24 22:57 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-09-24 23:38 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-24 23:47 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-09-25 0:14 ` [ofa-general] " Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-25 0:31 ` [ofa-general] " Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-09-25 13:15 ` jamal [this message]
2007-09-25 15:24 ` [ofa-general] " Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-25 22:14 ` jamal
2007-09-25 22:43 ` jamal
2007-09-25 13:08 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-08 4:51 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2007-10-08 13:34 ` jamal
2007-10-08 14:22 ` parallel networking (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock) Jeff Garzik
2007-10-08 15:18 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-08 21:11 ` [ofa-general] Re: parallel networking David Miller
2007-10-08 22:30 ` jamal
2007-10-08 22:33 ` David Miller
2007-10-08 22:35 ` [ofa-general] " Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-10-08 23:42 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-09 1:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-09 14:59 ` Michael Krause
2007-10-08 21:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock David Miller
2007-09-23 18:19 ` [PATCHES] TX batching Jeff Garzik
2007-09-23 19:11 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-23 19:36 ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-23 21:20 ` jamal
2007-09-24 7:00 ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-24 22:38 ` jamal
2007-09-24 22:52 ` [ofa-general] " Kok, Auke
2007-09-24 22:54 ` [DOC] Net batching driver howto jamal
2007-09-25 20:16 ` [ofa-general] " Randy Dunlap
2007-09-25 22:28 ` jamal
2007-09-25 0:15 ` [PATCHES] TX batching Jeff Garzik
2007-09-30 18:50 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-30 19:19 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-07 18:34 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-08 12:51 ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-10-08 14:05 ` jamal
2007-10-09 8:14 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-09 13:25 ` jamal
2007-09-17 4:08 ` [PATCH 0/10 REV5] Implement skb batching and support in IPoIB/E1000 Krishna Kumar2
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