.. and i've done a little more than no testing, so far so good. http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/norse/20140514-tcp-rss-timers-2.diff
This adds IP_FLOWID, IP_FLOWTYPE and IP_RSSCPUID to fetch the socket flowid, flowtype and cpuid from the inp. It's mostly for debugging for now. Thanks, -a On 14 May 2014 21:43, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > here's a completely untested patch for discussion. I'm emailing it out > mostly as a "is this a good idea" patch rather than a "it should just > be committed" patch. > > The RSS stuff from Robert maps connections to pcbgroups based on the > RSS hash, but it doesn't map the TCP timers the same way. So by > default they're all on swi0 and the per CPU timers don't take the hash > type or correctly choose the CPU. > > This patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/norse/20140514-tcp-rss-timers-1.diff > > does a few things: > > * it stores the hashtype in the inp as well as the flowid; > * the rss code grows a new method that maps the flowid/hashtype to a cpuid > * .. and the existing mbuf to cpuid method now uses this; > * the tcp timer code now has an inline function that knows about RSS > and defaults to the existing way of doing things if RSS isn't enabled. > > There's still a bunch of work left before all the lock contention > compartmentalization and balancing of RSS is realised. I'm just > chewing off the little corner bits that are easy to get done now. > > So, any comments? I'll give it a proper whirl on some 10G hardware in > a few days but I thought I'd at least get the general idea out there > for comment. > > Thanks, > > > > > -a _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
