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author | Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com> | 2013-06-24 09:28:03 +0200 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-06-26 01:35:52 +0200 |
commit | 2d48d67fa8cd129ea85ea02d91b4a793286866f8 (patch) | |
tree | be47e2406605760d949b08d29d988d46c4a20799 /Documentation | |
parent | ethernet/arc/arc_emac - Add new driver (diff) | |
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net: poll/select low latency socket support
select/poll busy-poll support.
Split sysctl value into two separate ones, one for read and one for poll.
updated Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
Add a new poll flag POLL_LL. When this flag is set, sock_poll will call
sk_poll_ll if possible. sock_poll sets this flag in its return value
to indicate to select/poll when a socket that can busy poll is found.
When poll/select have nothing to report, call the low-level
sock_poll again until we are out of time or we find something.
Once the system call finds something, it stops setting POLL_LL, so it can
return the result to the user ASAP.
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/net.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt index 5369879eafe2..e658bbfb641f 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt @@ -50,13 +50,27 @@ The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI interrupt, it's a Per-CPU variable. Default: 64 -low_latency_poll +low_latency_read ---------------- -Low latency busy poll timeout. (needs CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL) +Low latency busy poll timeout for socket reads. (needs CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL) Approximate time in us to spin waiting for packets on the device queue. +This sets the default value of the SO_LL socket option. +Can be set or overridden per socket by setting socket option SO_LL. Recommended value is 50. May increase power usage. Default: 0 (off) +low_latency_poll +---------------- +Low latency busy poll timeout for poll and select. (needs CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL) +Approximate time in us to spin waiting for packets on the device queue. +Recommended value depends on the number of sockets you poll on. +For several sockets 50, for several hundreds 100. +For more than that you probably want to use epoll. +Note that only sockets with SO_LL set will be busy polled, so you want to either +selectively set SO_LL on those sockets or set sysctl.net.low_latency_read globally. +May increase power usage. +Default: 0 (off) + rmem_default ------------ |