[RFC V3 PATCH 24/26] net/netpolicy: optimize for queue pair

From: kan . liang
Date: Mon Sep 12 2016 - 10:57:03 EST


From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>

Some drivers like i40e driver does not support separate Tx and Rx queues
as channels. Using Rx queue to stand for the channels, if queue_pair is
set by driver.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/netpolicy.h | 1 +
net/core/netpolicy.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/netpolicy.h b/include/linux/netpolicy.h
index 88f4f60..9b03b4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/netpolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpolicy.h
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ struct netpolicy_info {
unsigned long avail_policy[BITS_TO_LONGS(NET_POLICY_MAX)];
bool irq_affinity;
bool has_mix_policy;
+ bool queue_pair;
/* cpu and queue mapping information */
struct netpolicy_sys_info sys_info;
/* List of policy objects 0 rx 1 tx */
diff --git a/net/core/netpolicy.c b/net/core/netpolicy.c
index 2f55a14..84503a4 100644
--- a/net/core/netpolicy.c
+++ b/net/core/netpolicy.c
@@ -538,6 +538,9 @@ int netpolicy_pick_queue(struct netpolicy_instance *instance, bool is_rx)
if (!policy_validate(instance))
return -EINVAL;

+ if (dev->netpolicy->queue_pair)
+ is_rx = true;
+
/* fast path */
rcu_read_lock();
version = rcu_dereference(dev->netpolicy->sys_info.version)->major;
--
2.5.5