Jason Xing wrote: > Hi Stanislav, > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 06/17, Jason Xing wrote: > > > From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Introduce a control method in the xsk path to let users have the chance > > > to tune it manually. > > > > Can you expand more on why the defaults don't work for you? > > We use a user-level tcp stack with xsk to transmit packets that have > higher priorities than other normal kernel tcp flows. It turns out > that enlarging the number can minimize times of triggering sendto > sysctl, which contributes to faster transmission. it's very easy to > hit the upper bound (namely, 32) if you log the return value of > sendto. I mentioned a bit about this in the second patch, saying that > we can have a similar knob already appearing in the qdisc layer. > Furthermore, exposing important parameters can help applications > complete their AI/auto-tuning to judge which one is the best fit in > their production workload. That is also one of the promising > tendencies :) It would be informative to include this in the commit. Or more broadly: suggestions for when and how to pick good settings for these new tunables.
