Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755520Ab3EUSPZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 May 2013 14:15:25 -0400 Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:34604 "EHLO webmail.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754964Ab3EUSPY (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 May 2013 14:15:24 -0400 Message-ID: <1369160115.2615.51.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/4] net: low latency Ethernet device polling From: Ben Hutchings To: Eliezer Tamir CC: Alex Rosenbaum , Dave Miller , , , Jesse Brandeburg , Don Skidmore , , Willem de Bruijn , Andi Kleen , HPA , Eliezer Tamir Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 19:15:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <519B68A4.3010406@linux.intel.com> References: <20130520101552.14133.45953.stgit@ladj378.jer.intel.com> <519B632F.7040202@mellanox.com> <519B68A4.3010406@linux.intel.com> Organization: Solarflare Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 (3.2.3-3.fc16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.17.20.137] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-10.0.0.1412-7.000.1014-19882.005 X-TM-AS-Result: No--18.080000-0.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: Yes X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1155 Lines: 31 On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 15:29 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote: > Many of the questions you asked are covered in our RFC cover letter, but > I will touch them briefly > > On 21/05/2013 15:06, Alex Rosenbaum wrote: > > 1. It seem this patch does not cover epoll/select and such IO muxing APIs? > > We are thinking about how to implement epoll support as one of the next > steps. > > What benchmarks are you using to test poll/select/epoll? [...] I raised this issue back at Plumbers and I thought Jesse said poll() was covered. It's likely to be a bit of a toy without that. Also, UDP? Solarflare uses a wide range of benchmarks. Of the publicly available applications, I believe Ixia Chariot uses (or can use) epoll. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/