Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 1/4] net: implement support for low latency socket polling | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Tue, 21 May 2013 18:27:45 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 17:26 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote: > Adds a new ndo_ll_poll method and the code that supports and uses it. > This method can be used by low latency applications to busy poll ethernet > device queues directly from the socket code. The ip_low_latency_poll sysctl > entry controls how many cycles to poll. Set to zero to disable. [...]
One more general point: why is this treated as an IPv4 option (in Kconfig and sysctls)? I don't have any particular expectation that it will be used with network protocols other than IPv4 and v6 any time soon, but logically it's not dependent on them.
Ben.
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