netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: Use SMP threads for backlog NAPI (or optional).

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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 18:09:37 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Thomas Gleixner
 <tglx@...utronix.de>, Wander Lairson Costa <hawk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: Use SMP threads for backlog NAPI (or
 optional).

On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 17:59:57 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Apologies if I misunderstood. You said to make it optional which I did
> with the static key in the second patch of this series. The first patch
> is indeed not what we talked about I just to show what it would look
> like now that there is no "delay" for backlog-NAPI on the local CPU.
> 
> If the optional part is okay then I can repost only that patch against
> current net-next.

Do we have reason to believe nobody uses RPS?