From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: enable RPS on vlan devices Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 19:17:57 -0700 Message-ID: <6b6794f4-fa61-a9bc-43ed-3c62eb680498@gmail.com> References: <1539132062-4348-1-git-send-email-shannon.nelson@oracle.com> <36675e01-e9be-2464-2ee1-2409ebc22223@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: silviu.smarandache@oracle.com To: Shannon Nelson , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-pg1-f195.google.com ([209.85.215.195]:37621 "EHLO mail-pg1-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726932AbeJJJhv (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2018 05:37:51 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-f195.google.com with SMTP id c10-v6so1743392pgq.4 for ; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:17:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <36675e01-e9be-2464-2ee1-2409ebc22223@oracle.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/09/2018 07:11 PM, Shannon Nelson wrote: > > Hence the reason we sent this as an RFC a couple of weeks ago.  We got no response, so followed up with this patch in order to get some input. Do you have any suggestions for how we might accomplish this in a less ugly way? I dunno, maybe a modern way for all these very specific needs would be to use an eBPF hook to implement whatever combination of RPS/RFS/what_have_you Then, we no longer have to review what various strategies are used by users.