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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
	Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, paulmck@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: route cache DoS testing and softirqs
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:30:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040330133000.098761e2.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040330211450.GI3808@dualathlon.random>

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:14:50 +0200
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:

> > There are no hardirqs in the case under investigation, remember?
> 
> no hardirqs? there must be tons of hardirqs if ksoftirqd never runs.

NAPI should be kicking in for this workload, and I know for a fact it is
for Robert's case.  There should only be a few thousand hard irqs per
second.

Until the RX ring is depleted the device's hardirqs will not be re-
enabled.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-30 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-29 18:45 route cache DoS testing and softirqs Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-29 22:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-30  5:06   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-03-30  5:35     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-03-30 15:11       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-31  2:36     ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-30 14:43   ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-30 19:53     ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-30 20:47       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-30 21:06         ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-30 21:27           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-30 21:29         ` Robert Olsson
2004-03-31  7:36           ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-30 20:05   ` kuznet
2004-03-30 20:28     ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-04-01  6:00       ` kuznet
2004-03-30 21:14     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-30 21:30       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-03-30 21:37         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-30 22:22           ` David S. Miller
2004-03-30 22:49             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-31 20:46               ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-31 21:31                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-31 21:52                   ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-30 22:33           ` Robert Olsson
2004-03-31 17:10           ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-31 18:46             ` Robert Olsson
2004-03-31 20:37               ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-31 21:28                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-31 21:43                   ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-04-05 17:11                     ` Robert Olsson
2004-04-05 21:22                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-04-06 12:55                         ` Robert Olsson
2004-04-06 19:52                           ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-04-07 15:23                             ` Robert Olsson
2004-04-07 19:48                               ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-04-08 13:29                           ` kuznet
2004-04-08 14:07                             ` Robert Olsson
2004-03-31 22:36                   ` Robert Olsson
2004-03-31 22:52                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01  6:43                       ` kuznet
2004-04-01 13:16                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-08 13:38                           ` kuznet
2004-04-01 13:44                       ` Robert Olsson

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