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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hpe.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <kernel-team@fb.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 4/5] xps_flows: XPS for packets that don't have a socket
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:35:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <582e5e4e-ec5e-aafc-218d-7e7411ecc45b@hpe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1475155080.28155.159.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>

On 09/29/2016 06:18 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Well, then what this patch series is solving ?
>
> You have a producer of packets running on 8 vcpus in a VM.
>
> Packets are exiting the VM and need to be queued on a mq NIC in the
> hypervisor.
>
> Flow X can be scheduled on any of these 8 vcpus, so XPS is currently
> selecting different TXQ.

Just for completeness, in my testing, the VMs were single-vCPU.

rick jones

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-29 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-29  3:54 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/5] xps_flows: XPS flow steering when there is no socket Tom Herbert
2016-09-29  3:54 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/5] net: Set SW hash in skb_set_hash_from_sk Tom Herbert
2016-09-29  3:54 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/5] dql: Add counters for number of queuing and completion operations Tom Herbert
2016-09-29  3:54 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/5] net: Add xps_dev_flow_table_cnt Tom Herbert
2016-09-29  3:54 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 4/5] xps_flows: XPS for packets that don't have a socket Tom Herbert
2016-09-29  4:54   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-29 12:53     ` Tom Herbert
2016-09-29 13:18       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-29 14:08         ` Tom Herbert
2016-09-29 14:51           ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-29 15:15             ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-29 20:26               ` Tom Herbert
2016-09-29 16:35         ` Rick Jones [this message]
2016-09-29  3:54 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 5/5] xps: Documentation for transmit socketles flow steering Tom Herbert

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