Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] Add support to do threaded napi busy poll

[Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 11:12:32PM +0000, Samiullah Khawaja wrote:
> Extend the already existing support of threaded napi poll to do continuous
> busy polling.
> 
> This is used for doing continuous polling of napi to fetch descriptors from
> backing RX/TX queues for low latency applications. Allow enabling of threaded
> busypoll using netlink so this can be enabled on a set of dedicated napis for
> low latency applications.
> 
> It allows enabling NAPI busy poll for any userspace application
> indepdendent of userspace API being used for packet and event processing
> (epoll, io_uring, raw socket APIs). Once enabled user can fetch the PID
> of the kthread doing NAPI polling and set affinity, priority and
> scheduler for it depending on the low-latency requirements.

When you resubmit this after the merge window (or if you resubmit it
as an RFC), would you mind CCing both me (jdamato@fastly.com) and
Martin (mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca) ?

We almost missed this revision after commenting on the previous
version, since we weren't included in the CC list.

Both Martin and I read through the cover letter and proposed changes
and have several questions/comments, but given that the thread is
marked as deferred/closed due to the merge window, we'll hold off
on digging in until the next revision is posted.