netdev - Re: [PATCH] ifb: add multi-queue support

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Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:15:53 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ifb: add multi-queue support

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:38:56 +0800
Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 04:54:50PM +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have done a simple test. I run a simple program on computer A, which
> >> sends SYN packets with random source ports to Computer B's 80 port (No
> >> socket listens on that port, so tcp reset packets will be sent) in
> >> 90kpps. On computer B, I redirect the traffic to IFB. At the same
> >> time, I ping from B to A to get the RTT between them. I can't see any
> >> difference between the original IFB and my MQ version. They are both:
> >>
> >> CPU idle: 50%
> >> Latency: 0.3-0.4ms, burst 2ms.
> >>
> >
> > I'm mostly concerned with routers doing forwarding with 1Gb or 10Gb
> > NICs (including multiqueue). Alas/happily I don't have such a problem,
> > but can't help you with testing either.
> >
> 
> Oh, :) . I know more than one companies use kernel threads to forward
> packets, and there isn't explicit extra overhead at all. And as you
> know, as throughput increases, NAPI will bind the NIC to a CPU, and
> softirqd will be waked up to do the work, which should be done in
> SoftIRQ context. At that time, there isn't any difference between my
> approach and the current kernel's.
> 
> 

Why not make IFB a NAPI device. This would get rid of the extra soft-irq
round trip from going through netif_rx().  It would also behave like
regular multi-queue recieive device, and eliminate need for seperate
tasklets or threads.

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