Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com> writes: > On Fri, 2017-09-29 at 09:56 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: >> [adding Paolo, Eric] >> >> Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 02:57:08PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > > + wake_up_process(rcpu->kthread); >> > >> > In general the whole thing looks like 'threaded NAPI' that Hannes was >> > proposing some time back. I liked it back then and I like it now. >> > I don't remember what were the objections back then. >> > Something scheduler related? >> > Adding Hannes. > > Beyond the added scheduling complexity, the threaded NAPI > implementation proposed some time ago also possibly introduced OoO > packet delivery, because the NAPI threads were left unbound to any CPU.
Right, yes, but that can be resolved. The problem was just in that particular patch.
