Re: [PATCH net-next RFC 2/4] virtio-net: transmit napi

[Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>]

>>   drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 73
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>   1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> index 8c21e9a4adc7..9a9031640179 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
>>   static int napi_weight = NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT;
>>   module_param(napi_weight, int, 0444);
>>   +static int napi_tx_weight = NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT;
>> +
>
>
> Maybe we should use module_param for this? Or in the future, use
> tx-frames-irq for a per-device configuration.

This option should eventually just go away, and napi tx become the
standard mode.

In the short term, while we evaluate it on varied workloads, a
module_param sounds good to me. In general that is frowned
upon, as it leads to different configuration interfaces for each
device driver. But that should not be a concern in this limited
case.