[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2 bpf 1/5] net: ethtool: add xdp properties flag set

David Ahern dsahern at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 15:44:33 UTC 2020


On 12/9/20 4:52 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> But I have redesigned the ndo_xdp_xmit call to take a bulk of packets
> (up-to 16) so it should not be a problem to solve this by sharing
> TX-queue and talking a lock per 16 packets.  I still recommend that,
> for fallback case,  you allocated a number a TX-queue and distribute
> this across CPUs to avoid hitting a congested lock (above measurements
> are the optimal non-congested atomic lock operation)

I have been meaning to ask you why 16 for the XDP batching? If the
netdev budget is 64, why not something higher like 32 or 64?


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