Re: [PATCH net-next 15/24] net: Use nested-BH locking for XDP redirect.

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Jan 18 2024 - 11:37:41 EST


On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:51:18 +0100 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> I do agree that conceptually it makes a lot of sense to encapsulate the
> budget like this so drivers don't have to do all this state tracking
> themselves. It does appear that drivers are doing different things with
> the budget as it is today, though. For instance, the intel drivers seem
> to divide the budget over all the enabled RX rings(?); so I'm wondering
> if it'll be possible to unify drivers around a more opaque NAPI poll API?

We can come up with APIs which would cater to multi-queue cases.
Bigger question is what is the sensible polling strategy for those,
just dividing the budget seems, hm, crude.