Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add Documentation/networking/scaling.txt

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:38:17 -0700

On 08/16/2011 12:53 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 11:49 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
>> On 07/31/2011 11:56 PM, Tom Herbert wrote:
>>> Describes RSS, RPS, RFS, accelerated RFS, and XPS.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert<[email-masked]>
>>> ---
>>>    Documentation/networking/scaling.txt |  346 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>    1 files changed, 346 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>    create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..aa51f0f
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,346 @@
>>> +Scaling in the Linux Networking Stack
>>> +
>>> +
>>> +Introduction
>>> +============
>>> +
>>> +This document describes a set of complementary techniques in the Linux
>>> +networking stack to increase parallelism and improve performance (in
>>> +throughput, latency, CPU utilization, etc.) for multi-processor systems.
>>
>> Why not just leave-out the parenthetical lest some picky pedant find a
>> specific example where either of those three are not improved?
>
> As I'm sure you're aware, there is often a trade-off between throughput
> and latency.  It might be useful to provide some guidelines for
> optimising each of the above.

Yes.  I just worry about taking *too* many steps down the slippery slope 
and ending-up ballooning into a broad systems tuning tutorial.

rick