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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Brattain, Ross B" <ross.b.brattain@intel.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ixgbe: is DCA really that good ?
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:05:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9C9D5A.4030500@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302097444.3209.85.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On 4/6/2011 6:44 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Hi guys
>
>
> In a forwarding [or RPS/RFS] setup, why should we populate cpu caches
> with full frames content ? We only need first cache line to perform
> routing [or RPS/RFS] decision.
>
> ->  DCA should be a knob (ethtool ?) that an admin can switch off and on,
> port by port, not a CONFIG_IXGBE_DCA thing.
>
> Thanks

The problem is the implementation essentially makes it so that DCA is 
controlled by the availability of the DCA providers.  What would 
probably be the best solution would be for the DCA provider to have a 
means of shutting down specific devices.

The quick and dirty way to disable DCA is to rmmod the ioatdma module 
from the system.  With that removed it will remove the DCA provider and 
essentially turn off DCA.

Thanks,

Alex

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-06 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-06 13:44 [RFC] ixgbe: is DCA really that good ? Eric Dumazet
2011-04-06 15:24 ` Tom Herbert
2011-04-06 16:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-06 17:05 ` Alexander Duyck [this message]

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