Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2023-03-30

Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net/core: add optional threading for backlog processing

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2023-03-28 23:16:51
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:59:25 +0200 Felix Fietkau wrote:
When dealing with few flows or an imbalance on CPU utilization, static RPS
CPU assignment can be too inflexible. Add support for enabling threaded NAPI
for backlog processing in order to allow the scheduler to better balance
processing. This helps better spread the load across idle CPUs.
Can you share some numbers vs a system where RPS only spreads to 
the cores which are not running NAPI?

IMHO you're putting a lot of faith in the scheduler and you need 
to show that it actually does what you say it will do.
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