netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/3] net: add socket option for low latency polling

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Message-ID: <51B86FA3.1030306@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:54:59 +0300
From:	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	David 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>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@...or.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@...lanox.com>,
	Avner Ben Hanoch <avnerb@...lanox.com>,
	Or Kehati <ork@...lanox.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@...ir.org.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/3] net: add socket option for low latency
 polling

On 12/06/2013 15:44, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 14:20 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
>> adds a socket option for low latency polling.
>> This allows overriding the global sysctl value with a per-socket one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
>> ---
>
> It seems EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysctl_net_ll_poll) can now be removed ?

I think we would need it for poll.

Poll needs a way that is not dependent on any individual socket to know
how long to busy-wait, since we have to know it before we poll any
individual socket.

The patch I have right now for poll is not ready (and not fully tested).
But I can post it as an RFC if you want.

-Eliezer
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