netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] net: Introduce a socket option to enable picking tx queue based on rx queue.

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Date:   Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:53:57 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:     Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] net: Introduce a socket option to enable picking tx
 queue based on rx queue.

On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 20:12 -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:

> Two ints in sock_common for this purpose is quite expensive and the
> use case for this is limited-- even if a RX->TX queue mapping were
> introduced to eliminate the queue pair assumption this still won't
> help if the receive and transmit interfaces are different for the
> connection. I think we really need to see some very compelling results
> to be able to justify this.
> 

Yes, this is unreasonable cost.

XPS should really cover the case already.