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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] io_uring: Add support for napi_busy_poll
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To:     Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>,
        Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
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On 3/8/22 3:17 PM, Olivier Langlois wrote:
> The sqpoll thread can be used for performing the napi busy poll in a
> similar way that it does io polling for file systems supporting direct
> access bypassing the page cache.
> 
> The other way that io_uring can be used for napi busy poll is by
> calling io_uring_enter() to get events.
> 
> If the user specify a timeout value, it is distributed between polling
> and sleeping by using the systemwide setting
> /proc/sys/net/core/busy_poll.

I think we should get this queued up, but it doesn't apply to
for-5.18/io_uring at all. I can fix it up, but just curious what you
tested against?

-- 
Jens Axboe