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[82.69.66.36]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-38dbdd55656sm68032f8f.50.2025.02.05.15.10.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:10:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 23:10:03 +0000 From: David Laight To: Samiullah Khawaja Cc: Jakub Kicinski , "David S . Miller " , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , almasrymina@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/4] Add support to set napi threaded for individual napi Message-ID: <20250205231003.49e5cc3f@pumpkin> In-Reply-To: <20250205001052.2590140-2-skhawaja@google.com> References: <20250205001052.2590140-1-skhawaja@google.com> <20250205001052.2590140-2-skhawaja@google.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 00:10:49 +0000 Samiullah Khawaja wrote: > A net device has a threaded sysctl that can be used to enable threaded > napi polling on all of the NAPI contexts under that device. Allow > enabling threaded napi polling at individual napi level using netlink. > > Extend the netlink operation `napi-set` and allow setting the threaded > attribute of a NAPI. This will enable the threaded polling on a napi > context. > > Tested using following command in qemu/virtio-net: > ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml \ > --do napi-set --json '{"id": 66, "threaded": 1}' Is there a sane way for a 'real person' to set these from a normal startup/network configuration script? The netlink API is hardly user-friendly. David