Re: Pause and unpause queue

Marcus Wichelmann <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:32:04 +0100
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.xdp-newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 07.01.23 um 19:47 schrieb Toke Høiland-Jørgensen:
> team lnx <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> sure, during xdp redirect i found that sometimes the number of packets
>> arrived are too many for an interface
>> to handle in which case. Hence thought to experiment with tx pause to
>> make room for successive packets and then unpause !
> 
> Right, so this is using XDP as a straight-forward forwarding
> accelerator, redirecting from one interface to another? That will indeed
> only work well if both interfaces are exactly the same link speed; this
> is one of the motivating use cases for the queueing work :)
> 
> -Toke
> 

Hi,

I saw your talk and the patch set from july about this. What is blocking 
things right now from getting into the kernel?

XDP queuing support would be really nice to have. ;)

Thanks for your work!
Marcus