This patch set is meant to address a recent issue I found with VMs sending
traffic across a network. Specifically what I found was that the tap
interfaces were spreading single flows across all CPUs on the system due
to the fact that the sending VM was being load balanced across them. Under
light load this doesn't have much of an impact, however under heavier loads
where the interfaces are already running with Rx cleanup from other flows
on the CPUs I have seen this have a fairly significant impact as we can
avoid any issues due to reordering. The results can be anywhere from 10 to
30% improvement from what I have seen.
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Alexander Duyck (2):
net: Add function to allow configuration of RPS
tun: Configure Rx queues to default to RPS enabled
drivers/net/tun.c | 4 +++-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 9 ++++++++
net/core/dev.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
net/core/net-sysfs.c | 45 +++++++---------------------------------
4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
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