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Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 17:14:31 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 2/5] net: implement support for low latency
 socket polling
From: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>
To: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Eliezer Tamir
<eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Adds a new ndo_ll_poll method and the code that supports and uses it.
> This method can be used by low latency applications to busy poll Ethernet
> device queues directly from the socket code. The value of sysctl_net_ll_poll
> controls how many microseconds to poll. Set to zero to disable.

Unlike with TCP sockets, UDP sockets may receive packets from multiple
sources and hence the receiving context may be steered to be executed
on different cores through RSS or other Flow-Steering HW mechanisms
which could mean different napi contexts for the same socket, is that
a problem here? what's the severity?

Or.
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