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| author | Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com> | 2013-06-10 11:39:50 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-06-10 21:22:35 -0700 |
| commit | 060212928670593fb89243640bf05cf89560b023 (patch) | |
| tree | 32ae5c7be094983fb06430dbe09d36e2b317ca9c /net/Kconfig | |
| parent | af12fa6e46aa651e7b86a4c4117b562518fef184 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig index 523e43e6da1b..d6a9ce6e1800 100644 --- a/net/Kconfig +++ 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 |