From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.mhcomputing.net (master.mhcomputing.net [74.208.46.186]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D175C6CC for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:40:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.mhcomputing.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8D2E180D9C8; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:37:37 -0700 From: Matthew Hall To: Avi Kivity Message-ID: <20150625163737.GB29619@mhcomputing.net> References: <792CF0A6B0883C45AF8C719B2ECA946E42B2430F@DEMUMBX003.nsn-intra.net> <20150625151834.GA29296@mhcomputing.net> <558C2256.4070802@cloudius-systems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <558C2256.4070802@cloudius-systems.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] VMXNET3 on vmware, ping delay X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:40:16 -0000 On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:46:30PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > What would be useful is a runtime switch between polling and interrupt > modes. This was if the load is load you use interrupts, and as mitigation, > you switch to poll mode, until the load drops again. Yes... I believe this is part of the plan. Though obviously I didn't work on it personally, I am still using the classic simple modes until I get my app to feature-complete level first. In addition the *power* examples use adaptive polling to reduce CPU load to fit the current traffic profile. Matthew.