[dpdk-dev] More KNI performance

2015-06-05 Thread Jay Rolette
Follow-up to my long email about KNI performance so we don't have chapter-length quotes in any discussion... Increasing HZ to 1000 helped, but I'd really like a way to wake the KNI kernel thread up on demand. I'm hoping someone with more Linux kernel experience than I have might have some ideas.

[dpdk-dev] More KNI performance

2015-06-05 Thread Matthew Hall
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 10:27:21AM -0500, Jay Rolette wrote: > Is there some mechanism available that the KNI kernel thread could sleep > periodically, but somehow be awoken from user space? This is wildly unvalidated, but futex and SysV semaphore appear to be accessible from the kernel side. Sys