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Matthias Tafelmeier 3d48b53fb2 net: dev_weight: TX/RX orthogonality 
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>
 		2016-12-29 15:38:35 -05:00
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Makefile bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel infrastructure 2016-12-02 10:51:49 -05:00
datagram.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
dev.c net: dev_weight: TX/RX orthogonality 2016-12-29 15:38:35 -05:00
dev_addr_lists.c net: fix spelling for synchronized 2014-11-18 15:26:32 -05:00
dev_ioctl.c dev_ioctl: use sizeof(x) instead of sizeof x 2014-11-18 15:27:32 -05:00
devlink.c devlink: Add E-Switch inline mode control 2016-11-24 16:01:14 -05:00
drop_monitor.c genetlink: mark families as __ro_after_init 2016-10-27 16:16:09 -04:00
dst.c net: add dst_cache to ovs vxlan lwtunnel 2016-02-16 20:21:48 -05:00
dst_cache.c net: dst_cache_per_cpu_dst_set() can be static 2016-03-18 17:45:08 -04:00
ethtool.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-11-26 23:42:21 -05:00
fib_rules.c net: core: add missing check for uid_range in rule_exists. 2016-11-09 13:28:10 -05:00
filter.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-12-27 16:04:37 -08:00
flow.c Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 19:25:04 -08:00
flow_dissector.c flow dissector: ICMP support 2016-12-08 11:45:21 -05:00
gen_estimator.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
gen_stats.c net_sched: gen_estimator: complete rewrite of rate estimators 2016-12-05 15:21:59 -05:00
hwbm.c net: hwbm: Fix unbalanced spinlock in error case 2016-05-25 12:35:09 -07:00
link_watch.c dev: introduce dev_get_iflink() 2015-04-02 14:04:59 -04:00
lwt_bpf.c bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel infrastructure 2016-12-02 10:51:49 -05:00
lwtunnel.c bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel infrastructure 2016-12-02 10:51:49 -05:00
neighbour.c neigh: Send netevent after marking neigh as dead 2016-12-23 12:31:18 -05:00
net-procfs.c net: remove NETDEV_TX_LOCKED support 2016-04-26 15:53:05 -04:00
net-sysfs.c net: Add support for XPS with QoS via traffic classes 2016-10-31 15:00:48 -04:00
net-sysfs.h net: netdev_kobject_init: annotate with __init 2014-01-05 20:27:54 -05:00
net-traces.c net: IPv6 fib lookup tracepoint 2015-11-22 11:54:10 -05:00
net_namespace.c Merge branch 'stable-4.10' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-12-14 14:06:40 -08:00
netclassid_cgroup.c core: remove unneded headers for net cgroup controllers. 2016-02-17 15:31:27 -05:00
netevent.c netevent: remove automatic variable in register_netevent_notifier() 2015-05-31 00:03:21 -07:00
netpoll.c netpoll: more efficient locking 2016-11-16 18:32:02 -05:00
netprio_cgroup.c core: remove unneded headers for net cgroup controllers. 2016-02-17 15:31:27 -05:00
pktgen.c netns: make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned int 2016-11-18 10:59:15 -05:00
ptp_classifier.c ptp: Change ptp_class to a proper bitmask 2015-11-03 11:08:22 -05:00
request_sock.c ipv4: Namespaceify tcp_max_syn_backlog knob 2016-12-29 11:38:31 -05:00
rtnetlink.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
scm.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
secure_seq.c tcp: allow to turn tcp timestamp randomization off 2016-12-02 12:49:59 -05:00
skbuff.c ktime: Get rid of the union 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
sock.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sock_diag.c sock_diag: align nlattr properly when needed 2016-04-26 12:00:48 -04:00
sock_reuseport.c soreuseport: do not export reuseport_add_sock() 2016-10-18 14:18:23 -04:00
stream.c net: fix sleeping for sk_wait_event() 2016-11-14 13:17:21 -05:00
sysctl_net_core.c net: dev_weight: TX/RX orthogonality 2016-12-29 15:38:35 -05:00
timestamping.c net: skb_defer_rx_timestamp should check for phydev before setting up classify 2015-07-09 14:17:15 -07:00
tso.c net: tso: add support for IPv6 2015-10-26 22:24:22 -07:00
utils.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00