Re: RFS issue: no HW filter for paused stream

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 09:11 +0300, Amir Vadai wrote:
> Looks good.
> and now the code is much clearer

Does that mean that this change *works* for you?

Ben.

[...]
> > But that means we never move the flow to a new CPU in the non-
> > accelerated case.  So maybe the proper change would be:
> >
> > --- a/net/core/dev.c
> > +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> > @@ -2652,10 +2652,7 @@ static struct rps_dev_flow *
> >   set_rps_cpu(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
> >   	    struct rps_dev_flow *rflow, u16 next_cpu)
> >   {
> > -	u16 tcpu;
> > -
> > -	tcpu = rflow->cpu = next_cpu;
> > -	if (tcpu != RPS_NO_CPU) {
> > +	if (next_cpu != RPS_NO_CPU) {
> >   #ifdef CONFIG_RFS_ACCEL
> >   		struct netdev_rx_queue *rxqueue;
> >   		struct rps_dev_flow_table *flow_table;
> > @@ -2683,16 +2680,16 @@ set_rps_cpu(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
> >   			goto out;
> >   		old_rflow = rflow;
> >   		rflow =&flow_table->flows[flow_id];
> > -		rflow->cpu = next_cpu;
> >   		rflow->filter = rc;
> >   		if (old_rflow->filter == rflow->filter)
> >   			old_rflow->filter = RPS_NO_FILTER;
> >   	out:
> >   #endif
> >   		rflow->last_qtail =
> > -			per_cpu(softnet_data, tcpu).input_queue_head;
> > +			per_cpu(softnet_data, next_cpu).input_queue_head;
> >   	}
> >
> > +	rflow->cpu = next_cpu;
> >   	return rflow;
> >   }
> >
> > --- END ---
> >

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