netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: add optional threading for backlog processing

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Message-ID: <20230324102038.7d91355c@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:20:38 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: add optional threading for backlog
 processing

On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:13:14 +0100 Felix Fietkau wrote:
> When dealing with few flows or an imbalance on CPU utilization, static RPS
> CPU assignment can be too inflexible. Add support for enabling threaded NAPI
> for backlog processing in order to allow the scheduler to better balance
> processing. This helps better spread the load across idle CPUs.

Can you explain the use case a little bit more?