On 12/04/18 16:11, David Miller wrote: > From: Edward Cree <ec...@solarflare.com> > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:02:50 +0100 > >> A misconfigured system (e.g. with all interrupts affinitised to all CPUs) >> may produce a storm of ARFS steering events. With the existing sfc ARFS >> implementation, that could create a backlog of workitems that grinds the >> system to a halt. To prevent this, limit the number of workitems that >> may be in flight for a given SFC device to 8 (EFX_RPS_MAX_IN_FLIGHT), and >> return EBUSY from our ndo_rx_flow_steer method if the limit is reached. >> Given this limit, also store the workitems in an array of slots within the >> struct efx_nic, rather than dynamically allocating for each request. >> >> Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ec...@solarflare.com> > I don't think this behavior is all that great. > > If you really have to queue up these operations because they take a long > time, I think it is better to enter a synchronous mode and sleep once > you hit this in-flight limit of 8. I don't think we can sleep at this point, ndo_rx_flow_steer is called from the RX path (netif_receive_skb_internal() -> get_rps_cpu() -> set_rps_cpu()).
> Either that or make the expiration work smarter when it has lots of events > to process. I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean here. This code is not handling expiration of old ARFS filters, it's inserting new ones. -Ed
