From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sowmini Varadhan Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] sunvnet: Packet processing in non-interrupt context. Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:55:35 -0400 Message-ID: <542C5C37.1040409@oracle.com> References: <20141001185604.GG17706@oracle.com> <20141001.155009.2277009117294992988.davem@davemloft.net> Reply-To: sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: raghuram.kothakota@oracle.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:43353 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751331AbaJATzj (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2014 15:55:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20141001.155009.2277009117294992988.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/01/2014 03:50 PM, David Miller wrote: >> >> A BH Rx handler is a simpler way to avoid the weaknesses of processing >> packets in LDC interrupt context, and also provides Rx load-spreading >> across multiple CPUs. > > I think you want to re-evaluate this considering napi_gro_receive() which > is what you should really be calling in a NAPI driver. Sorry I dont follow the suggestion. If I make this a NAPI driver that uses napi_gro_receive, I would still have to deal with a budget, right? --Sowmini