netdev - Re: SO_REUSEPORT - can it be done in kernel?

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Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:03:29 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...radead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, rick.jones2@...com,
	therbert@...gle.com, wsommerfeld@...gle.com,
	daniel.baluta@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SO_REUSEPORT - can it be done in kernel?

Le mardi 01 mars 2011 à 19:53 +0800, Herbert Xu a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 12:45:09PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > CPU 11 handles all TX completions : Its a potential bottleneck.
> > 
> > I might ressurect XPS patch ;)
> 
> Actually this has been my gripe all along with our TX multiqueue
> support.  We should not decide the queue based on the socket, but
> on the current CPU.
> 
> We already do the right thing for forwarded packets because there
> is no socket to latch onto, we just need to fix it for locally
> generated traffic.
> 

I believe its now done properly (in net-next-2.6) with commit
4f57c087de9b46182 (net: implement mechanism for HW based QOS)

> The odd packet reordering each time your scheduler decides to
> migrate the process isn't a big deal IMHO.  If your scheduler
> is constantly moving things you've got bigger problems to worry
> about.

Well, BENET has one TX queue anyway...


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