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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] RPS: Sparse connection optimizations - v2
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 09:47:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336117669.3752.49.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA35A3D.8000205@mips.com>

On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 12:25 +0800, Deng-Cheng Zhu wrote:
> On 05/04/2012 11:22 AM, Tom Herbert wrote:
> >> +struct cpu_flow {
> >> +       struct net_device *dev;
> >> +       u32 rxhash;
> >> +       unsigned long ts;
> >> +};
> >
> > This seems like overkill, we already have the rps_flow_table and this
> > used in accelerated RFS so the device can also take advantage of
> > steering.
> 
> I think the mechanisms of rps_dev_flow_table and cpu_flow (in this
> patch) are different: The former works along with rps_sock_flow_table
> whose CPU info is based on recvmsg by the application. But for the tests
> like what I did, there's no application involved.
> 
> 
> Deng-Cheng

I really suggest you speak with MIPS arch maintainers about these IRQ
being all serviced by CPU0.

Adding tweaks in network stack to lower the impact of this huge problem
is a no go.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-04  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-03  8:56 [PATCH v2] RPS: Sparse connection optimizations - v2 Deng-Cheng Zhu
2012-05-04  3:22 ` Tom Herbert
2012-05-04  3:39   ` Deng-Cheng Zhu
2012-05-04  4:25   ` Deng-Cheng Zhu
2012-05-04  7:47     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-05-07  6:51       ` Deng-Cheng Zhu
2012-05-07  7:22         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-04 15:31     ` Tom Herbert
2012-05-04 15:47       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-04 20:53         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-07  6:48       ` Deng-Cheng Zhu
2012-05-07  7:38         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-07  8:01           ` Deng-Cheng Zhu
2012-05-07  8:25             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-08  6:43               ` Deng-Cheng Zhu

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