On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 4:23 AM Jesper Dangaard Brouer
<bro...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:24:37 -0700
> Song Liu <liu.song....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >                 /* Feedback loop via tracepoint */
> > > -               trace_xdp_cpumap_kthread(rcpu->map_id, processed, drops, 
> > > sched);
> > > +               trace_xdp_cpumap_kthread(rcpu->map_id, n, drops, sched);
> >
> > btw: can we do the tracepoint after local_bh_enable()?
>
> I would rather not, as my experience is that this result in strange
> inaccurate readings, because (as comment below says) this is a
> CPU-process-reschedule point.  The test tool reads these values and
> calculate PPS.

Thanks for the explanation!

Song

>
> > >
> > >                 local_bh_enable(); /* resched point, may call 
> > > do_softirq() */
> > >         }
>
> --
> Best regards,
>   Jesper Dangaard Brouer
>   MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
>   LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

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