From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: tklein@de.ibm.com, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org,
themann@de.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
shemminger@linux-foundation.org, dlstevens@us.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
raisch@de.ibm.com, meder@de.ibm.com, akepner@sgi.com,
ossthema@de.ibm.com, stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:51:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070824215103.GO4282@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070824.144436.59664160.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:44:36PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:50:58 -0700
>
> > Problem is if it increases rapidly, you may drop packets
> > before you notice that the ring is full in the current estimated
> > interval.
>
> This is one of many reasons why hardware interrupt mitigation
> is really needed for this.
When turning off interrupts, don't turn them *all* off.
Leave the queue-full interrupt always on.
--linas
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From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: dlstevens@us.ibm.com, tklein@de.ibm.com, themann@de.ibm.com,
stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, raisch@de.ibm.com,
netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
akepner@sgi.com, meder@de.ibm.com, ossthema@de.ibm.com,
shemminger@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:51:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070824215103.GO4282@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070824.144436.59664160.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:44:36PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:50:58 -0700
>
> > Problem is if it increases rapidly, you may drop packets
> > before you notice that the ring is full in the current estimated
> > interval.
>
> This is one of many reasons why hardware interrupt mitigation
> is really needed for this.
When turning off interrupts, don't turn them *all* off.
Leave the queue-full interrupt always on.
--linas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-24 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-24 13:59 RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 13:59 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 15:37 ` akepner
2007-08-24 15:37 ` akepner
2007-08-24 15:47 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 15:47 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 15:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-24 15:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-24 16:50 ` David Stevens
2007-08-24 16:50 ` David Stevens
2007-08-24 21:44 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:44 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:51 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2007-08-24 21:51 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 16:51 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 16:51 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 17:07 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-24 17:07 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-24 17:45 ` Shirley Ma
2007-08-24 17:45 ` Shirley Ma
2007-08-24 17:16 ` James Chapman
2007-08-24 17:16 ` James Chapman
2007-08-24 18:11 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 18:11 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 21:47 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:47 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 22:06 ` akepner
2007-08-24 22:06 ` akepner
2007-08-26 19:36 ` James Chapman
2007-08-26 19:36 ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 1:58 ` David Miller
2007-08-27 1:58 ` David Miller
2007-08-27 9:47 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 9:47 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 20:37 ` David Miller
2007-08-27 20:37 ` David Miller
2007-08-28 11:19 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 11:19 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 20:21 ` David Miller
2007-08-28 20:21 ` David Miller
2007-08-29 7:10 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29 7:10 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29 8:15 ` James Chapman
2007-08-29 8:15 ` James Chapman
2007-08-29 8:43 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29 8:43 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29 8:29 ` David Miller
2007-08-29 8:29 ` David Miller
2007-08-29 8:31 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29 8:31 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 15:51 ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 15:51 ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 16:02 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 16:02 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 17:05 ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 17:05 ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 21:02 ` David Miller
2007-08-27 21:02 ` David Miller
2007-08-27 21:41 ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 21:41 ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 21:56 ` David Miller
2007-08-27 21:56 ` David Miller
2007-08-28 9:22 ` James Chapman
2007-08-28 9:22 ` James Chapman
2007-08-28 11:48 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 11:48 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 12:16 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-28 12:16 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-28 14:55 ` James Chapman
2007-08-28 14:55 ` James Chapman
2007-08-28 11:21 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 11:21 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 20:25 ` David Miller
2007-08-28 20:25 ` David Miller
2007-08-28 20:27 ` David Miller
2007-08-28 20:27 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 16:45 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 16:45 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 21:43 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:43 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:32 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:32 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:37 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:37 ` David Miller
[not found] <8VHRR-45R-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8VKwj-8ke-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-08-24 19:04 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-08-24 19:04 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-08-24 20:42 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 20:42 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 21:11 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 21:11 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 21:35 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 21:35 ` Linas Vepstas
[not found] ` <E1IOeSm-0000bm-Jo__24045.532072387$1187982363$gmane$org@be1.lrz>
2007-08-24 20:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
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2007-08-25 2:10 Mitchell Erblich
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