netdev - Re: Setting RPS affinities from network driver

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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:44:35 -0800
From:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To:	Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: Setting RPS affinities from network driver

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a network driver for a multicore SOC with a on-board
> network interface and would like to set RPS affinities from driver by
> default. So that the network performance is good with whatever driver
> supplied. Ofcourse these can be further adjusted from userspace
> anyways.
>
> Is there a way to set RPS settings from driver itself ?
> The only issue i am seeing is while setting 'rps_needed' key.
>
There is nothing to prevent this, but it would be really cool to make
this into a library function that drivers can call to initialize RPS
in some sane way (you might want to look at cpu_rmap).

> static_key_slow_inc(&rps_needed);
>
> Currently this is not exported, so having issues while compiling
> driver as module.
>
> If i export this symbol, will it be acceptable ?
>
Seems okay to me.

Thanks,
Tom

>
> Thanks,
> Sunil.
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