From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.jf.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>, HPA <hpa@zytor.com>,
Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@tamir.org.il>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] net: implement support for low latency socket polling
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:20:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362345601.15793.83.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130303192153.GC3401@two.firstfloor.org>
On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 20:21 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Alternative to 2) would be to use a generation id, incremented every
> > time a napi used in spin polling enabled driver is dismantled (and freed
> > after RCU grace period)
> >
> > And store in sockets not only the pointer to napi_struct, but the
> > current generation id : If the generation id doesnt match, disable
> > the spinpoll until next packet rebuilds the cache again.
>
> This would require rcu_read_lock, aka preempt off, during polling, right?
>
Of course, polling probably needs BH disabling as well to get the per
napi lock
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-03 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-27 17:55 [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 17:55 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] net: implement support for low latency socket polling Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-03 18:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-03 19:21 ` Andi Kleen
2013-03-03 21:20 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-03-04 3:55 ` Andi Kleen
2013-03-04 8:43 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04 14:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-04 15:28 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04 16:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-04 7:23 ` Cong Wang
2013-03-05 16:43 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-05 17:15 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-05 19:57 ` David Miller
2013-03-05 19:55 ` David Miller
2013-03-05 20:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-27 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] tcp: add TCP support for low latency receive poll Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-05 17:13 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-27 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] ixgbe: Add support for ndo_ll_poll Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 18:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-27 19:20 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-05 17:26 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-05 17:28 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-05 17:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-27 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] ixgbe: add extra stats " Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] ixgbe: kprobes latency test module Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 18:07 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 18:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-02-27 18:47 ` Tom Herbert
2013-02-27 19:17 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04 22:34 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-27 19:58 ` Rick Jones
2013-02-27 20:40 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 21:42 ` Ben Greear
2013-02-28 8:38 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-01 21:24 ` David Miller
2013-03-01 22:57 ` Tom Herbert
2013-03-02 17:02 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04 7:37 ` Cong Wang
2013-03-04 8:19 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04 8:46 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04 17:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
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