netdev - Re: [PATCH] ifb: add multi-queue support

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Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:16:40 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ifb: add multi-queue support

2009/11/13 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>:
>
> Messy ? Because of few tests added in code, and branches always
> correctly predicted ?
>
> Still some people might rely on tasklet instead of workqueues
> and added scheduler stress and latency penalty. Tasklet are softirq
> and normally are processed a few nanosecs later than RX softirq,
> on the same CPU, while with your workqueue, I guess the scheduler will
> try to not migrate it, so we add a penalty for light to moderate load.
>
> I guess this new ifb mode would be a regression for them ?
>
> If you dont want to maintain a compatibility mode, maybe you
> should introduce a complete new driver, drivers/net/ifbmq.c or ifbwq.c
>
> (multiqueue or workqueue references)
>

It sounds a good idea.

-- 
Regards，
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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