Re: rps perfomance WAS(Re: rps: question

Tom Herbert
2010-04-17T17:26:19Z

> Tom, I am not sure what you describe is even respected for NAPI devices.
> (I hope you use napi devices in your company ;) )
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> If we enqueue a skb to backlog, we also link our backlog napi into our
> poll_list, if not already there.
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> So the loop in net_rx_action() will make us handle our backlog napi a
> bit after this network device napi (if time limit of 2 jiffies not
> elapsed) and *before* sending IPIS to remote cpus anyway.
>
Then I think that's a bug you've identified ;-)

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