From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eliezer Tamir Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: exit busy loop when another process is runnable Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:21:25 +0300 Message-ID: <5406B365.5040604@linux.intel.com> References: <1408608310-13579-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> <1408608310-13579-2-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> <1408683665.5648.69.camel@marge.simpson.net> <20140822073653.GA7372@gmail.com> <53F70887.8030602@redhat.com> <1408716976.5604.18.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> <53FB3715.7070009@linux.intel.com> <53FC3466.8000304@redhat.com> <5404186E.4090409@linux.intel.com> <54053AF8.6070907@redhat.com> <54055D9F.7000108@linux.intel.com> <54056459.4060100@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ingo Molnar , Mike Galbraith , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, Peter Zijlstra , "Ingo Molnar jacob.e.keller@intel.com" To: Jason Wang , Eric Dumazet Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54056459.4060100@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 02/09/2014 09:31, Jason Wang wrote: > On 09/02/2014 02:03 PM, Eliezer Tamir wrote: >> On 02/09/2014 06:35, Jason Wang wrote: >>> Not sure whether this method will scale considering thousands of sockets >>> and processes. >> There may be millions of sockets, but in most cases only a handful of >> device queues per CPU to busy poll on. I have tested the epoll rfc >> code with hundreds of thousands of sockets and one or two device >> queues and is scales pretty well. >> >> The part I don't like in that code is the cumbersome mechanism I used >> to track the socket -> queue relationship. I think that if I had more >> time to work on it, I would instead look into extending the epoll >> interface so that libevent can tell the kernel what it wants, instead >> of having the busypoll code try and learn it. > > I'd like to have a look at this rfc. Could you please give me a pointer? > I've done a quick search on kernel mailing list but didn't find it. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/21/192 Cheers, Eliezer