netdev - Re: [PATCH net RESEND] net: rps: send out pending IPI's on CPU hotplug

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Date:   Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:35:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ashwanth@...eaurora.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net RESEND] net: rps: send out pending IPI's on CPU
 hotplug

From: Ashwanth Goli <ashwanth@...eaurora.org>
Date: Fri,  9 Jun 2017 14:24:58 +0530

> IPI's from the victim cpu are not handled in dev_cpu_callback.
> So these pending IPI's would be sent to the remote cpu only when
> NET_RX is scheduled on the victim cpu and since this trigger is
> unpredictable it would result in packet latencies on the remote cpu.
> 
> This patch add support to send the pending ipi's of victim cpu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ashwanth Goli <ashwanth@...eaurora.org>

Applied, thank you.