netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ip: do not set RFS core on error queue reads

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Date:   Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:15:24 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     soheil.kdev@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, pjt@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com,
        soheil@...gle.com, willemb@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        ncardwell@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ip: do not set RFS core on error queue
 reads

From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.kdev@...il.com>
Date: Wed,  3 Jan 2018 21:47:10 -0500

> From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> 
> We should only record RPS on normal reads and writes.
> In single threaded processes, all calls record the same state. In
> multi-threaded processes where a separate thread processes
> errors, the RFS table mispredicts.
> 
> Note that, when CONFIG_RPS is disabled, sock_rps_record_flow
> is a noop and no branch is added as a result of this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>

Applied.