net: add low latency socket poll

Adds an ndo_ll_poll method and the code that supports it.
This method can be used by low latency applications to busy-poll
Ethernet device queues directly from the socket code.
sysctl_net_ll_poll controls how many microseconds to poll.
Default is zero (disabled).
Individual protocol support will be added by subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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Eliezer Tamir 2013-06-10 11:39:50 +03:00 • committed by David S. Miller
commit 0602129286
12 changed files with 208 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = {
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPFastOpenListenOverflow", LINUX_MIB_TCPFASTOPENLISTENOVERFLOW),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPFastOpenCookieReqd", LINUX_MIB_TCPFASTOPENCOOKIEREQD),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues", LINUX_MIB_TCPSPURIOUS_RTX_HOSTQUEUES),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("LowLatencyRxPackets", LINUX_MIB_LOWLATENCYRXPACKETS),
SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL
};