netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/17] latest qdisc patch series

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Date:   Tue, 6 Jun 2017 07:30:15 +0300
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Cc:     eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/17] latest qdisc patch series

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:36:03AM -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
> I am not going to be able to work on this for a few days so I figured
> it might be worth getting some feedback if there is any. Any thoughts
> on how to squeeze a few extra pps out of this would be very useful.

Batch dequeue into a temporary buffer, then scan this
buffer and xmit without locks might be a good idea.
It certainly helped vhost. You might need to requeue
if you are unable to xmit, there's now support for this.

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MST