Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net/core: add optional threading for backlog processing

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Mar 28 2023 - 19:16:52 EST


On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:59:25 +0200 Felix Fietkau 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 backlog processing in order to allow the scheduler to better balance
> processing. This helps better spread the load across idle CPUs.

Can you share some numbers vs a system where RPS only spreads to
the cores which are not running NAPI?

IMHO you're putting a lot of faith in the scheduler and you need
to show that it actually does what you say it will do.