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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index 8ce7c30e7230..a177de21d28e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ applying a filter to each packet that assigns it to one of a small number of logical flows. Packets for each flow are steered to a separate receive queue, which in turn can be processed by separate CPUs. This mechanism is generally known as “Receive-side Scaling” (RSS). The goal of RSS and -the other scaling techniques to increase performance uniformly. +the other scaling techniques is to increase performance uniformly. Multi-queue distribution can also be used for traffic prioritization, but that is not the focus of these techniques. @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ of queues to IRQs can be determined from /proc/interrupts. By default, an IRQ may be handled on any CPU. Because a non-negligible part of packet processing takes place in receive interrupt handling, it is advantageous to spread receive interrupts between CPUs. To manually adjust the IRQ -affinity of each interrupt see Documentation/IRQ-affinity. Some systems +affinity of each interrupt see Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt. Some systems will be running irqbalance, a daemon that dynamically optimizes IRQ assignments and as a result may override any manual settings. @@ -186,10 +186,10 @@ are steered using plain RPS. Multiple table entries may point to the same CPU. Indeed, with many flows and few CPUs, it is very likely that a single application thread handles flows with many different flow hashes. -rps_sock_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU for -flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. Each -table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg and -sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() +rps_sock_flow_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU +for flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. +Each table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg +and sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() and tcp_splice_read()). When the scheduler moves a thread to a new CPU while it has outstanding |