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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Marcus Wichelmann <marcus.wichelmann@hetzner-cloud.de>,
	team lnx <teamlnxi8@gmail.com>
Cc: xdp-newbies@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pause and unpause queue
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:00:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wn5uh1sl.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4d0fc96-d897-c41c-8da2-f9c13725c2bf@hetzner-cloud.de>

Marcus Wichelmann <marcus.wichelmann@hetzner-cloud.de> writes:

> Am 07.01.23 um 19:47 schrieb Toke Høiland-Jørgensen:
>> team lnx <teamlnxi8@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> sure, during xdp redirect i found that sometimes the number of packets
>>> arrived are too many for an interface
>>> to handle in which case. Hence thought to experiment with tx pause to
>>> make room for successive packets and then unpause !
>> 
>> Right, so this is using XDP as a straight-forward forwarding
>> accelerator, redirecting from one interface to another? That will indeed
>> only work well if both interfaces are exactly the same link speed; this
>> is one of the motivating use cases for the queueing work :)
>> 
>> -Toke
>> 
>
> Hi,
>
> I saw your talk and the patch set from july about this. What is blocking 
> things right now from getting into the kernel?

Well, the immediate blocker is me getting around to revising the patch
set and incorporating feedback + some other ideas for how to do it
properly. I managed to get awfully sidetracked before the holidays, but
it's on my list of things to pick back up this year :)

> XDP queuing support would be really nice to have. ;)

Knowing that there's interest in this certainly helps motivation-wise,
so thanks for that!

-Toke


      reply	other threads:[~2023-01-10 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-06  3:00 Pause and unpause queue team lnx
2023-01-06 13:00 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-07 18:04   ` team lnx
2023-01-07 18:24     ` Dave Taht
2023-01-07 18:48       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-08  6:02         ` team lnx
2023-01-09 13:27           ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-07 18:47     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-10 10:32       ` Marcus Wichelmann
2023-01-10 15:00         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]

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