From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
ak@gargoyle.fritz.box, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
andi@firstfloor.org, peterz@infradead.org
Subject: Re: OFT - reserving CPU's for networking
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:58:52 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004302150380.2951@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100430.115715.216750975.davem@davemloft.net>
Dave,
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, David Miller wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:19:36 +0200 (CEST)
>
> > Aside of that I seriously doubt that you can do networking w/o time
> > and timers.
>
> You're right that we need timestamps and the like.
>
> But only if we actually process the packets on these restricted cpus :-)
>
> If we use RPS and farm out all packets to other cpus, ie. just doing
> the driver work and the remote cpu dispatch on these "offline" cpus,
> it is doable.
>
> Then we can do cool tricks like having the cpu spin on a mwait() on the
> network device's status descriptor in memory.
>
> In any event I agree with you, it's a cool idea at best, and likely
> not really practical.
Well, it might be worth to experiment with that once we get the basic
infrastructure in place to "isolate" cores under full kernel control.
It's not too hard to solve the problems, but it seems nobody has a
free time slot to tackle them.
Thanks
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-30 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-23 8:12 [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Changli Gao
2010-04-23 9:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-23 22:02 ` jamal
2010-04-24 14:10 ` jamal
2010-04-26 14:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26 14:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26 21:06 ` jamal
[not found] ` <20100429174056.GA8044@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-29 17:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 18:10 ` OFT - reserving CPU's for networking Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-29 19:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-29 20:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 18:15 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-04-30 18:57 ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:58 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2010-04-30 21:01 ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-30 22:30 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 10:53 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-01 22:03 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 22:58 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-01 23:29 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 23:44 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-05-01 20:31 ` Martin Josefsson
2010-05-01 22:13 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <20100429182347.GA8512@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-29 19:12 ` [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Eric Dumazet
[not found] ` <20100429214144.GA10663@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-30 5:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 23:38 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 11:00 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 6:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 9:20 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 10:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 14:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 14:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 15:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 17:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 19:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 22:06 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-03 3:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 5:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-03 10:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 10:34 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-03 14:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 14:45 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-05-04 1:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 15:52 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-04 1:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 21:30 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 15:46 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 16:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 17:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 17:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 21:25 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 21:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 21:54 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 22:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-03 20:15 ` jamal
2010-04-26 21:03 ` jamal
2010-04-23 10:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:08 ` David Miller
2010-04-27 22:18 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2x: Remove two prefetch() Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:19 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 13:14 ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-04-28 15:44 ` Eliezer Tamir
2010-04-28 16:53 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <w2ue8f3c3211004280842r9f2589e8qb8fd4b7933cd9756@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-28 16:55 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 11:33 ` jamal
2010-04-28 12:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 12:36 ` jamal
2010-04-28 14:06 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 14:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 14:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 21:36 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 22:22 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ip_queue_rcv_skb() helper Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 22:39 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path jamal
2010-04-29 0:00 ` jamal
2010-04-29 4:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 11:35 ` jamal
2010-04-29 12:12 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-29 12:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:17 ` jamal
2010-04-29 13:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:37 ` jamal
2010-04-29 13:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:56 ` jamal
2010-04-29 20:36 ` jamal
2010-04-29 21:01 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: sock_def_readable() and friends RCU conversion Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 13:55 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-04-30 17:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 23:35 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 4:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 7:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 8:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 22:00 ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:30 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path jamal
2010-04-30 20:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 0:06 ` jamal
2010-05-01 5:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 6:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 10:24 ` Changli Gao
2010-05-01 10:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 11:29 ` jamal
2010-05-01 11:23 ` jamal
2010-05-01 11:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 11:56 ` jamal
2010-05-01 13:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 13:49 ` jamal
2010-05-03 20:10 ` jamal
2010-04-29 23:07 ` Changli Gao
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