netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] net: dev: Make rps

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Date:   Thu, 3 Feb 2022 11:39:24 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] net: dev: Make rps_lock() disable
 interrupts.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 17:41:30 +0100 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > I think you can re-jig this a little more - rps_ipi_queued() only return
> > 0 if sd is "local" so maybe we can call __napi_schedule_irqoff()
> > instead which already has the if () for PREEMPT_RT?
> > 
> > Maybe moving the ____napi_schedule() into rps_ipi_queued() and
> > renaming it to napi_schedule_backlog() or napi_schedule_rps() 
> > would make the code easier to follow in that case?  
> 
> Something like this then?

Exactly!