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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop

From Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop
Date 2016-05-11 15:50 +0200
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On 11.05.2016 15:39, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> I am fine with that. It is us to show clear benefits or use cases for
> that. If we fail with that, no problem at all that the patches get
> rejected, we don't want to add bloat to the kernel, for sure! At this
> point I still think a possibility to run napi in kthreads will allow
> specific workloads to see an improvement. Maybe the simple branch in
> napi_schedule is just worth so people can play around with it. As it
> shouldn't change behavior we can later on simply remove it.

Actually, I consider it a bug that when we force the kernel to use
threaded irqs that we only schedule the softirq for napi later on and
don't do the processing within the thread.

Bye,
Hannes

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  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 16:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-10 18:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 18:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> - 2016-05-10 22:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-10 22:50 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-10 23:00 +0200
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          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-05-10 23:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> - 2016-05-10 18:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-05-10 22:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> - 2016-05-10 23:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 23:40 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-05-10 23:40 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 00:00 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 00:10 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 00:10 +0200
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              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 20:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-05-11 00:40 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 01:00 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-05-11 09:00 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-05-11 15:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> - 2016-05-11 16:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 17:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 18:00 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 00:00 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 11:50 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 15:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-05-11 15:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-05-11 15:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 16:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> - 2016-05-11 16:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-05-12 00:50 +0200
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