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Message-ID: <20240708130407.7d22058d@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 13:04:07 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
 pabeni@...hat.com, petrm@...dia.com, przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com,
 ecree.xilinx@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] selftests: drv-net: rss_ctx: test queue
 changes vs user RSS config

On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:56:01 -0400 Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > There may be background noise traffic on the main context.
> > If we are running iperf to the main context the noise will just add up
> > to the iperf traffic and all other queues should be completely idle.
> > If we're testing additional context we'll get only iperf traffic on
> > the target context, and all non-iperf noise stays on main context
> > (hence noise rather than empty)  
> 
> That makes sense. Should the following be inverted then?
> 
> +    if main_ctx:
> +        other_key = 'empty'
> +        defer(ethtool, f"-X {cfg.ifname} default")
> +    else:
> +        other_key = 'noise'

No, unless I'm confused. if we're testing the main context the other
queues will be empty. Else we're testing other (additional) contexts
and queues outside those contexts will contain noise (the queues in 
the main context, specifically).

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