On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 06:06:16PM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote: > > If not, we can go from there and evaluate this much larger patch > > series. But let's try the simple thing first. > > At high packet rates (say 30K pkt/s and more), we can still saturate the > CPU. This is also mentioned in the announcement with claim that switch > to rbtree based queue would be necessary to fully address that. My tests > seem to confirm that but I'm still not sure it is worth backporting > something as intrusive into stable 4.4. No, it is not. If you worry about those things, you should not be running a 4.4 kernel, use 4.14 or newer please. thanks, greg k-h
