On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 12:16 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Sure, but how do I know that it'll be the same CPU next time?
Because the NIC always use same RX queue for a given flow. So if you setup your IRQ affinities properly, the same CPU will drain packets from this RX queue. And since RFS is off, you have the guarantee the same CPU will be used to process packets in TCP stack. This SO_INCOMING_CPU info is a hint, there is no guarantee eg if you use bonding and some load balancer or switch decides to send packets on different links. Most NIC use Toeplitz hash, so given the 4-tuple, and rss key (40 bytes), you can actually compute the hash in software and know on which RX queue traffic should land. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
