From: Sagi Grimberg > Sent: 08 November 2017 07:28 ... > > Why would you give the user a knob to destroy what you carefully optimized? > > Well, looks like someone relies on this knob, the question is if he is > doing something better for his workload. I don't know, its really up to > the user to say.
Maybe the user wants to ensure that nothing except some very specific processing happens on some (or most) of the cpu cores. If the expected overall ethernet data rate isn't exceptionally large is there any reason to allocate a queue (etc) for every cpu. David