net: add low latency socket poll
authorEliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:39:50 +0000 (11:39 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:22:35 +0000 (21:22 -0700)
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 <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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