linux-kernel - Re: [net-next PATCH 1/5] net: Do not record sender_cpu as napi

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:59:24 -0700
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/5] net: Do not record sender_cpu as napi_id in
 socket receive paths

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 19:40 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>
>> What I probably can do is go through and replace all the spots where
>> we where checking for sk_napi_id being 0, and instead replace it with
>> a check against NR_CPUS.
>
> This seems a good idea.

Right.  This is the path I am planning to go with.  It will require
about the same amount of code change but replaces those checks.  I
just have to make sure I catch all the spots where we were checking it
for 0 but that shouldn't be too difficult of an issue.