On Tue, 27 May 2014, Amir Vadai wrote:
> On 5/26/2014 3:39 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Even if you'd solve that and have a callback in the driver, then the
> > callback never can restart the napi session directly. All it can do is
> > set a flag which needs to be checked in the RX path, right?
>
On 5/26/2014 3:39 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
[...]
The rmap _IS_ instantiated by the driver, and both the driver and the
networking core know about it.
So it's not completely different consumers. Just because it's a
library does not mean it's disjunct from the code which uses it.
Aside of th
On Mon, 26 May 2014, Amir Vadai wrote:
> On 5/26/2014 2:34 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > You are not describing what needs to be notified and why. Please
> > explain the details of that and how the RFS (whatever that is) and the
> > network driver are connected
> The goal of RFS is to increase dat
On 5/26/2014 2:34 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 2014, Amir Vadai wrote:
On 5/26/2014 2:15 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Sun, 25 May 2014, Amir Vadai wrote:
In order to do that, I need to add a new irq affinity notification
callback (In addition to the existing cpu_rmap notificatio
On Mon, 26 May 2014, Amir Vadai wrote:
> On 5/26/2014 2:15 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 May 2014, Amir Vadai wrote:
> > > In order to do that, I need to add a new irq affinity notification
> > > callback (In addition to the existing cpu_rmap notification). For
> > > that I would like
On 5/26/2014 2:15 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Sun, 25 May 2014, Amir Vadai wrote:
In order to do that, I need to add a new irq affinity notification
callback (In addition to the existing cpu_rmap notification). For
that I would like to extend irq_set_affinity_notifier() to have a
notifier call
On Sun, 25 May 2014, Amir Vadai wrote:
> In order to do that, I need to add a new irq affinity notification
> callback (In addition to the existing cpu_rmap notification). For
> that I would like to extend irq_set_affinity_notifier() to have a
> notifier call-chain instead of a single notifier call
On 5/25/2014 3:15 PM, Amir Vadai wrote:
Hi,
I'm working for Mellanox on mlx4_en NIC driver.
We need to be able to be notified on irq affinity changes.
This is because, during non-stop full bandwidth traffic, napi will poll
constantly and no interrupt will be fired. Because of that, even if the
Hi,
I'm working for Mellanox on mlx4_en NIC driver.
We need to be able to be notified on irq affinity changes.
This is because, during non-stop full bandwidth traffic, napi will poll
constantly and no interrupt will be fired. Because of that, even if the
user changes the irq affinity, polling
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