From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
hadi@cyberus.ca, xiaosuo@gmail.com, therbert@google.com,
shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 17:52:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100503155204.GA6200@gargoyle.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100503070925.572bbee6@infradead.org>
> so the hard problem is that on going idle, the local timers need to be
> funneled to the external HPET. Afaik right now we use one channel of
> the hpet, with the result that we have one global lock for this.
>
> HPETs have more than one channel (2 or 3 historically, newer chipsets
> iirc have a few more), so in principle we can split this lock at least
> a little bit... if we can get to one hpet channel per level 3 cache
> domain we'd already make huge progress in terms of cost of the
> contention....
I suggested the same thing a few emails up @) (great minds think
alike etc.etc. @) .
I'm not sure how difficult it would be to implement though.
Potential issues:
Some user applications use the hpet channels directly through
the character device interface so there would be a potential
compatibility issue (but maybe that should be just moved
to be emulated with a hrtimer ?)
And if multiple broadcast controllers are elected this might
make it harder to become idle.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-03 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-23 8:12 [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Changli Gao
2010-04-23 9:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-23 22:02 ` jamal
2010-04-24 14:10 ` jamal
2010-04-26 14:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26 14:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26 21:06 ` jamal
[not found] ` <20100429174056.GA8044@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-29 17:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 18:10 ` OFT - reserving CPU's for networking Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-29 19:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-29 20:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 18:15 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-04-30 18:57 ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-30 21:01 ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-30 22:30 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 10:53 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-01 22:03 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 22:58 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-01 23:29 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 23:44 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-05-01 20:31 ` Martin Josefsson
2010-05-01 22:13 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <20100429182347.GA8512@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-29 19:12 ` [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Eric Dumazet
[not found] ` <20100429214144.GA10663@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-30 5:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 23:38 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 11:00 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 6:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 9:20 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 10:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 14:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 14:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 15:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 17:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 19:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 22:06 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-03 3:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 5:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-03 10:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 10:34 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-03 14:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 14:45 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-05-04 1:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 15:52 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-05-04 1:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 21:30 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 15:46 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 16:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 17:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 17:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 21:25 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 21:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 21:54 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 22:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-03 20:15 ` jamal
2010-04-26 21:03 ` jamal
2010-04-23 10:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:08 ` David Miller
2010-04-27 22:18 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2x: Remove two prefetch() Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:19 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 13:14 ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-04-28 15:44 ` Eliezer Tamir
2010-04-28 16:53 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <w2ue8f3c3211004280842r9f2589e8qb8fd4b7933cd9756@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-28 16:55 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 11:33 ` jamal
2010-04-28 12:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 12:36 ` jamal
2010-04-28 14:06 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 14:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 14:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 21:36 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 22:22 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ip_queue_rcv_skb() helper Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 22:39 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path jamal
2010-04-29 0:00 ` jamal
2010-04-29 4:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 11:35 ` jamal
2010-04-29 12:12 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-29 12:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:17 ` jamal
2010-04-29 13:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:37 ` jamal
2010-04-29 13:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:56 ` jamal
2010-04-29 20:36 ` jamal
2010-04-29 21:01 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: sock_def_readable() and friends RCU conversion Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 13:55 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-04-30 17:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 23:35 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 4:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 7:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 8:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 22:00 ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:30 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path jamal
2010-04-30 20:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 0:06 ` jamal
2010-05-01 5:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 6:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 10:24 ` Changli Gao
2010-05-01 10:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 11:29 ` jamal
2010-05-01 11:23 ` jamal
2010-05-01 11:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 11:56 ` jamal
2010-05-01 13:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 13:49 ` jamal
2010-05-03 20:10 ` jamal
2010-04-29 23:07 ` Changli Gao
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