Re: [Bloat] virtio_net: BQL?

[Eric Dumazet]

On 5/18/21 1:00 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> 
> The Azure network driver (netvsc) also does not have BQL. Several years ago
> I tried adding it but it benchmarked worse and there is the added complexity
> of handling the accelerated networking VF path.
> 


Note that NIC with many TX queues make BQL almost useless, only adding extra
overhead.

We should probably make BQL something that can be manually turned on/off.