netdev - Re: [RFC] Idea about increasing efficency of skb allocation in network devices

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Message-ID: <4A700667.5080108@inria.fr>
Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:20:55 +0200
From:	Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...ia.fr>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Idea about increasing efficency of skb allocation in	network
 devices

Neil Horman wrote:
>>> Is there an easy way to get this NUMA node from the application socket
>>> descriptor?
>>>       
>> Thats not easy, this information can change for every packet (think of
>> bonding setups, whith aggregation of devices on different NUMA nodes)
>>
>> We could add a getsockopt() call to peek this information from the next
>> data to be read from socket (returns node id where skb data is sitting,
>> hoping that NIC driver hadnt copybreak it (ie : allocate a small skb and
>> copy the device provided data on it before feeding packet to network stack))
>>
>>     
> Would a proc or debugfs interface perhaps be helpful here?  Something that
> perhaps showed a statistical distribution of how many packets were received by
> each process on each irq (operating under the assumption that each rx queue has
> its own msi irq, giving us an easy identifier).
>   

It could be intereting. But unprivileged user processes cannot read
/proc/irq/*/smp_affinity, so they would not be able to translate your
procfs information into a binding hint.

Brice

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