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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>,
	Grzegorz Krzystek <ninex@ninex.eu.org>,
	ninex@o2.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] msi: Invert the sense of the MSI enables.
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 07:51:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705250751.45738.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070524213157.1d39458f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


> Do we have a feel for how much performace we're losing on those 
> systems which _could_ do MSI, but which will end up defaulting
> to not using it?

At least on 10GB ethernet it is a significant difference; you usually
cannot go anywhere near line speed without MSI

I suspect it is visible on high performance / multiple GB NICs too.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-25  5:51 UTC|newest]

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2007-05-25  4:19                                         ` [PATCH 1/2] msi: Invert the sense of the MSI enables Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25  4:26                                           ` [PATCH 2/2] msi: Add support for the Intel chipsets that support MSI Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25  5:38                                             ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  6:10                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25 14:42                                                 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-25 16:52                                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25  4:31                                           ` [PATCH 1/2] msi: Invert the sense of the MSI enables Andrew Morton
2007-05-25  5:20                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25  5:44                                             ` Grant Grundler
2007-05-25  5:51                                             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-05-25 20:16                                               ` Jonathan Lundell
2007-05-26  6:52                                                 ` Grant Grundler
2007-05-25  5:14                                           ` Michael Ellerman
2007-05-25  5:59                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25  6:40                                             ` David Miller
2007-05-25  5:20                                           ` Greg KH
2007-05-25  5:57                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25 15:17                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25 15:28                                               ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-25 15:40                                               ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-25 15:42                                                 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-25 16:10                                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25 20:09                                                     ` David Schwartz
2007-05-25 20:25                                                     ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-25 20:35                                               ` Greg KH
2007-05-25 21:06                                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25 21:17                                                   ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-25 21:31                                                   ` Greg KH
2007-05-26  6:43                                                 ` Grant Grundler
2007-05-25 21:47                                           ` Brice Goglin

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