netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] rps: core implementation

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Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:12:00 -0800
From:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] rps: core implementation

> I guess my confusion is from the:
>
>                                __raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ);
>
> you are doing as you set the cpus in rps_remote_softirq_cpus.
>
> Why do you need to schedule the local RX softirq, when we know we're
> in a NAPI poll loop and thus that we're in a softirq, and thus that we
> will fire off the IPIs at the end of net_rx_action()?
>
> That's what you're doing, the softirq raising just seems superfluous.
>

Ah, right. If RPS can't be used non-NAPI case, this line is now
superfluous.  It can be removed.

Thanks
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