On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:11:08 -0800 Wei Wang wrote: > This patch allows running each napi poll loop inside its own > kernel thread. > The kthread is created during netif_napi_add() if dev->threaded > is set. And threaded mode is enabled in napi_enable(). We will > provide a way to set dev->threaded and enable threaded mode > without a device up/down in the following patch. > > Once that threaded mode is enabled and the kthread is > started, napi_schedule() will wake-up such thread instead > of scheduling the softirq. > > The threaded poll loop behaves quite likely the net_rx_action, > but it does not have to manipulate local irqs and uses > an explicit scheduling point based on netdev_budget. > > Co-developed-by: Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com> > Co-developed-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> > Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> > Co-developed-by: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei...@google.com>
include/linux/netdevice.h:2150: warning: Function parameter or member 'threaded' not described in 'net_device' scripts/kernel-doc -none $files is your friend - W=1 does not check headers.
