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net: dev_weight: TX/RX orthogonality

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Oftenly, introducing side effects on packet processing on the other half
of the stack by adjusting one of TX/RX via sysctl is not desirable.
There are cases of demand for asymmetric, orthogonal configurability.

This holds true especially for nodes where RPS for RFS usage on top is
configured and therefore use the 'old dev_weight'. This is quite a
common base configuration setup nowadays, even with NICs of superior processing
support (e.g. aRFS).

A good example use case are nodes acting as noSQL data bases with a
large number of tiny requests and rather fewer but large packets as responses.
It's affordable to have large budget and rx dev_weights for the
requests. But as a side effect having this large a number on TX
processed in one run can overwhelm drivers.

This patch therefore introduces an independent configurability via sysctl to
userland.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Tafelmeier <matthias.tafelmeier@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matthias Tafelmeier
2016-12-29 21:37:21 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent afbb167415
commit 3d48b53fb2
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@@ -3795,6 +3795,10 @@ void netdev_stats_to_stats64(struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats64,
extern int netdev_max_backlog;
extern int netdev_tstamp_prequeue;
extern int weight_p;
extern int dev_weight_rx_bias;
extern int dev_weight_tx_bias;
extern int dev_rx_weight;
extern int dev_tx_weight;
bool netdev_has_upper_dev(struct net_device *dev, struct net_device *upper_dev);
struct net_device *netdev_upper_get_next_dev_rcu(struct net_device *dev,