On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 04:18:07PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > According to my understanding the point is that executing the simple > hard irq handler for NAPI drivers doesn't cost significantly more than > executing the default hard irq handler (irq_default_primary_handler). > Therefore threadifying it means more or less just overhead.
If that is really true, then sure. You could probably run a cyclictest under a ping flood just to make sure though.