Subject: Re: rps perfomance WAS(Re: rps: question

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:44:26 -0700

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:53:42 -0400
jamal <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Agreed. So to enumerate, the benefits come in if:
> a) you have many processors
> b) you have single-queue nic
> c) at sub-threshold traffic you dont care about a little latency

There probably needs to be better autotuning for this, there is no reason
that RPS to be steering packets unless the queue is getting backed up.
Some kind of high / low water mark mechanism is needed.

RPS might also interact with the core turbo boost functionality on Intel chips.
Newer chips will make a single core faster if other core can be kept idle.

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