linux-kernel - Re: [net-next 0/3] Per epoll context busy poll support

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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 10:22:39 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Joe Damato <jdamato@...tly.com>
Cc: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
 <jlayton@...nel.org>, <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>, <brauner@...nel.org>,
 <davem@...emloft.net>, <alexander.duyck@...il.com>, "Wei Wang"
 <weiwan@...gle.com>, Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/3] Per epoll context busy poll support

On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 11:23:28 -0600 Samudrala, Sridhar wrote:
> > I know I am replying to a stale thread on the patches I've submit (there is
> > a v5 now [1]), but I just looked at your message - sorry I didn't reply
> > sooner.
> > 
> > The per-queue and per-napi netlink APIs look extremely useful, thanks for
> > pointing this out.
> > 
> > In my development tree, I had added SIOCGIFNAME_BY_NAPI_ID which works
> > similar to SIOCGIFNAME: it takes a NAPI ID and returns the IF name. This is
> > useful on machines with multiple NICs where each NIC could be located in
> > one of many different NUMA zones.
> > 
> > The idea was that apps would use SO_INCOMING_NAPI_ID, distribute the NAPI
> > ID to a worker thread which could then use SIOCGIFNAME_BY_NAPI_ID to
> > compute which NIC the connection came in on. The app would then (via
> > configuration) know where to pin that worker thread; ideally somewhere NUMA
> > local to the NIC.
> > 
> > I had assumed that such a change would be rejected, but I figured I'd send
> > an RFC for it after the per epoll context stuff was done and see if anyone
> > thought SIOCGIFNAME_BY_NAPI_ID would be useful for them, as well.  
> 
> I think you should be able to get this functionality via the netdev-genl 
> API to get napi parameters. It returns ifindex as one of the parameters 
> and you should able to get the name from ifindex.
> 
> $ ./cli.py --spec netdev.yaml --do napi-get --json='{"id": 593}'
> {'id': 593, 'ifindex': 12, 'irq': 291, 'pid': 3727}

FWIW we also have a C library to access those. Out of curiosity what's
the programming language you'd use in user space, Joe?