Re: [RFC v2] net/core: add optional threading for rps backlog processing

[Eric Dumazet]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 11:06 AM Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When dealing with few flows or an imbalance on CPU utilization, static RPS
> CPU assignment can be too inflexible. Add support for enabling threaded NAPI
> for RPS backlog processing in order to allow the scheduler to better balance
> processing. This helps better spread the load across idle CPUs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> RFC v2:
>  - fix rebase error in rps locking

Why only deal with RPS ?

It seems you propose the sofnet_data backlog be processed by a thread,
instead than from softirq ?