Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: threadable napi poll loop

[David Miller]

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 22:22:50 +0200

> On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 09:08 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 18:03 +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>> 
>> > If a single core host is under network flood, i.e. ksoftirqd is
>> > scheduled and it eventually (after processing ~640 packets) will let the
>> > user space process run. The latter will execute a syscall to receive a
>> > packet, which will have to disable/enable bh at least once and that will
>> > cause the processing of another ~640 packets. To receive a single packet
>> > in user space, the kernel has to process more than one thousand packets.
>> 
>> Looks you found the bug then. Have you tried to fix it ?
 ...
> The ksoftirq and the local_bh_enable() design are the root of the
> problem, they need to be touched/affected to solve it.

That's not what I read from your description, processing 640 packets
before going to ksoftirqd seems to the be the absolute root problem.