From: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 11:56:44 -0400
> From: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]> > > refine packet socket rollover: > > 1. mitigate a case of lock contention > 2. avoid exporting resource exhaustion to other sockets, > by migrating only to a victim socket that has ample room > 3. avoid reordering of most flows on the socket, > by migrating first the flow responsible for load imbalance > 4. help processes detect load imbalance, > by exporting rollover counters > > Context: rollover implements flow migration in packet socket fanout > groups in case of extreme load imbalance. It is a specific > implementation of migration that minimizes reordering by selecting > the same victim socket when possible (and by selecting subsequent > victims in a round robin fashion, from which its name derives). The user API looks a lot better now, series applied, thanks Willem. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
