On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 03:00:59PM +0100, Ismael Luceno wrote: > Under synflood conditions binding defense_work to system_long_wq may > pin it to a saturated CPU. > > We've observed improved throughtput on a DPDK/VPP application with > this change. We attribute this to the reduced context switching. > > The defense_work handler has no per-CPU data dependencies and no cache > locality requirements that would justify this. > > Signed-off-by: Ismael Luceno <[email protected]> > --- > Depends-on: wq/for-7.1 c116737e972e ("workqueue: Add system_dfl_long_wq for > long unbound works")
Hi Ismael, This patch seems suitable to be targeted at the nf-next tree. That should be annotated like this: Subject [PATCH nf-next] ipvs: ... And the patch must compile when applied to it's target tree. So you'll need to repost this patch once the dependency above has reached that tree.

