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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion•org>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, jakub.kicinski@netronome•com,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat•com>,
	mchan@broadcom•com, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail•com>,
	peter.waskiewicz.jr@intel•com,
	Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@iogearbox•net>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse•net>,
	edumazet@google•com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/5] bpf: introduce new bpf cpu map type BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:40:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2upn8pr.fsf@stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1506677857.2478.5.camel@redhat.com> (Paolo Abeni's message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:37:37 +0200")

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com> writes:

> On Fri, 2017-09-29 at 09:56 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> [adding Paolo, Eric]
>> 
>> Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 02:57:08PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > > +	wake_up_process(rcpu->kthread);
>> > 
>> > In general the whole thing looks like 'threaded NAPI' that Hannes was
>> > proposing some time back. I liked it back then and I like it now.
>> > I don't remember what were the objections back then.
>> > Something scheduler related?
>> > Adding Hannes.
>
> Beyond the added scheduling complexity, the threaded NAPI
> implementation proposed some time ago also possibly introduced OoO
> packet delivery, because the NAPI threads were left unbound to any CPU.

Right, yes, but that can be resolved. The problem was just in that
particular patch.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-29  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-28 12:57 [net-next PATCH 0/5] New bpf cpumap type for XDP_REDIRECT Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-28 12:57 ` [net-next PATCH 1/5] bpf: introduce new bpf cpu map type BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-29  3:21   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-09-29  7:56     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2017-09-29  9:37       ` Paolo Abeni
2017-09-29  9:40         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2017-09-29  9:14     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-28 12:57 ` [net-next PATCH 2/5] bpf: XDP_REDIRECT enable use of cpumap Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-28 12:57 ` [net-next PATCH 3/5] bpf: cpumap xdp_buff to skb conversion and allocation Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-28 23:21   ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-09-29  7:46     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-29  9:49   ` Jason Wang
2017-09-29 13:05     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-28 12:57 ` [net-next PATCH 4/5] bpf: cpumap add tracepoints Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-28 12:57 ` [net-next PATCH 5/5] samples/bpf: add cpumap sample program xdp_redirect_cpu Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-28 22:45 ` [net-next PATCH 0/5] New bpf cpumap type for XDP_REDIRECT Daniel Borkmann
2017-09-29  6:53   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer

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