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| author | Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com> | 2025-07-10 21:12:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-07-14 18:02:37 -0700 |
| commit | 2677010e7793451c20d895c477c4dc76f6e6a10e (patch) | |
| tree | b01196cdc5e5b9804e2a073f1ec4abff855c0665 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | a44312d58e78cfe8f0e72435101b7a9187b21d46 (diff) | |
Add support to set NAPI threaded for individual NAPI
A net device has a threaded sysctl that can be used to enable threaded
NAPI polling on all of the NAPI contexts under that device. Allow
enabling threaded NAPI polling at individual NAPI level using netlink.
Extend the netlink operation `napi-set` and allow setting the threaded
attribute of a NAPI. This will enable the threaded polling on a NAPI
context.
Add a test in `nl_netdev.py` that verifies various cases of threaded
NAPI being set at NAPI and at device level.
Tested
./tools/testing/selftests/net/nl_netdev.py
TAP version 13
1..7
ok 1 nl_netdev.empty_check
ok 2 nl_netdev.lo_check
ok 3 nl_netdev.page_pool_check
ok 4 nl_netdev.napi_list_check
ok 5 nl_netdev.dev_set_threaded
ok 6 nl_netdev.napi_set_threaded
ok 7 nl_netdev.nsim_rxq_reset_down
# Totals: pass:7 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250710211203.3979655-1-skhawaja@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/napi.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/napi.rst b/Documentation/networking/napi.rst index d0e3953cae6a..a15754adb041 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/napi.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/napi.rst @@ -444,7 +444,14 @@ dependent). The NAPI instance IDs will be assigned in the opposite order than the process IDs of the kernel threads. Threaded NAPI is controlled by writing 0/1 to the ``threaded`` file in -netdev's sysfs directory. +netdev's sysfs directory. It can also be enabled for a specific NAPI using +netlink interface. + +For example, using the script: + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ ynl --family netdev --do napi-set --json='{"id": 66, "threaded": 1}' .. rubric:: Footnotes |