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authorEliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>2013-06-10 11:39:50 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-06-10 21:22:35 -0700
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net: add low latency socket poll
Adds an ndo_ll_poll method and the code that supports it. This method can be used by low latency applications to busy-poll Ethernet device queues directly from the socket code. sysctl_net_ll_poll controls how many microseconds to poll. Default is zero (disabled). Individual protocol support will be added by subsequent patches. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
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+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -243,6 +243,18 @@ config NETPRIO_CGROUP
Cgroup subsystem for use in assigning processes to network priorities on
a per-interface basis
+config NET_LL_RX_POLL
+ bool "Low Latency Receive Poll"
+ depends on X86_TSC
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ Support Low Latency Receive Queue Poll.
+ (For network card drivers which support this option.)
+ When waiting for data in read or poll call directly into the the device driver
+ to flush packets which may be pending on the device queues into the stack.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config BQL
boolean
depends on SYSFS