Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes:

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> Here is first version of XPS.
>
> Goal of XPS is to free TX completed skbs by the cpu that submitted the transmit.
>
> Because I chose to union skb->iif with skb->sending_cpu, I chose
> to introduce a new xps_consume_skb(skb), and not generalize consume_skb() itself.
>
> This means that selected drivers must use new function to benefit from XPS
>
> Preliminary tests are quite good, especially on NUMA machines.
>
> Only NAPI drivers can use this new infrastructure (xps_consume_skb() cannot
> be called from hardirq context, only from softirq)
>
> I converted tg3 and pktgen for my tests

Do you have numbers on this? It seems like a lot of effort to avoid transfering
a few cache lines.

-Andi (who is a bit sceptical and would rather see generic work for this in slab)

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