netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 1/4] net: implement support for low latency socket polling

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Message-ID: <1369157265.2615.28.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 May 2013 18:27:45 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Dave Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@...or.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@...ir.org.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 1/4] net: implement support for low latency
 socket polling

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 17:26 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
> Adds a new ndo_ll_poll method and the code that supports and uses it.
> This method can be used by low latency applications to busy poll ethernet
> device queues directly from the socket code. The ip_low_latency_poll sysctl
> entry controls how many cycles to poll. Set to zero to disable.
[...]

One more general point: why is this treated as an IPv4 option (in
Kconfig and sysctls)?  I don't have any particular expectation that it
will be used with network protocols other than IPv4 and v6 any time
soon, but logically it's not dependent on them.

Ben.

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