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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:20:38 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
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        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: add optional threading for backlog
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:13:14 +0100 Felix Fietkau wrote:
> When dealing with few flows or an imbalance on CPU utilization, static RPS
> CPU assignment can be too inflexible. Add support for enabling threaded NAPI
> for backlog processing in order to allow the scheduler to better balance
> processing. This helps better spread the load across idle CPUs.

Can you explain the use case a little bit more?