netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: rps: send out pending IPI's on CPU hotplug

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Date:   Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:53:23 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     ashwanth@...eaurora.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: rps: send out pending IPI's on CPU hotplug

On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 20:47 +0530, ashwanth@...eaurora.org wrote:
> IPI's from the victim cpu are not handled in dev_cpu_callback.
> So these pending IPI's would be sent to the remote cpu only when
> NET_RX is scheduled on the victim cpu and since this trigger is
> unpredictable it would result in packet latencies on the remote cpu.
> 
> This patch adds support to send the pending ipi's of victim cpu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ashwanth Goli <ashwanth@...eaurora.org>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Thanks !