>> Oftenly, introducing side effects on packet processing on the other half >> of the stack by adjusting one of TX/RX via sysctl is not desirable. >> There are cases of demand for asymmetric, orthogonal configurability. >> >> This holds true especially for nodes where RPS for RFS usage on top is >> configured and therefore use the 'old dev_weight'. This is quite a >> common base configuration setup nowadays, even with NICs of superior >> processing >> support (e.g. aRFS). >> >> A good example use case are nodes acting as noSQL data bases with a >> large number of tiny requests and rather fewer but large packets as >> responses. >> It's affordable to have large budget and rx dev_weights for the >> requests. But as a side effect having this large a number on TX >> processed in one run can overwhelm drivers. >> >> This patch therefore introduces an independent configurability via sysctl to >> userland. >> >> Signed-off-by: Matthias Tafelmeier <matthias.tafelme...@gmx.net> > Much better, applied, thanks. >
Excuse me, have you rejected that one in the meantime/afterwards? Checked in Hartman's and Linus tree and your current net. It's not applied. Thanks!
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