netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 2/5] net: implement support for low latency socket polling

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Date:	Wed, 29 May 2013 21:52:16 +0300
From:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
To:	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@...or.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@...lanox.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@...ir.org.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 2/5] net: implement support for low latency
 socket polling

Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> Or Gerlitz wrote:

>> Unlike with TCP sockets, UDP sockets may receive packets from multiple
>> sources and hence the receiving context may be steered to be executed
>> on different cores through RSS or other Flow-Steering HW mechanisms
>> which could mean different napi contexts for the same socket, is that
>> a problem here? what's the severity?

> Nothing will break if you poll on the wrong queue.
> Your data will come through normal NAPI processing of the right queue.

Can you elaborate a little further, why you call this "wrong" and "right"?
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