netdev - Re: [net-next 11/13] igb: Make Tx budget for NAPI user adjustable

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Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:11:58 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>,
	jeffrey t kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	gospo@...hat.com, Alexander H Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 11/13] igb: Make Tx budget for NAPI user adjustable

On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:00:55 -0400
Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> wrote:

> I was thinking of something along the lines of two more attributes in
> /sys/class/net/<if>/queues:
> napi_weight
> irq
> 
> The former is the napi weight of a given napi instance associated with a queue,
> while the latter is a symlink either to ../device/irq or ../device/msi_irqs/<n>/
> (or perhaps to ../devices/msi_irqs/<n>/irq if we want more consistency).   This
> lets us tune the napi weight of a queue and know what interrupt is associated
> with it.  That seems fairly sane to me.

This breaks for the case of some corner case devices like multi-port Marvell boards.
There can be a N to 1 or 1 to N relationship between NAPI and the device.
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