Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/2] net: Use SMP threads for backlog NAPI.

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Aug 18 2023 - 12:22:01 EST


On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:57:34 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> As of now Jakub isn't eager to have it and my testing/ convincing is
> quite limited. If nobody else yells that something like that would be
> helpful I would simply go and convince PeterZ/tglx to apply 2/2 of this
> series.

As tempting as code removal would be, we can still try to explore the
option of letting backlog processing run in threads - as an opt-in on
normal kernels and force it on RT?

But it would be good to wait ~2 weeks before moving forward, if you
don't mind, various core folks keep taking vacations..