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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jens axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
	ilpo jarvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2]: softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs.
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:57:30 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31089112.38051221843450562.JavaMail.root@tahiti.vyatta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080918.023614.193687634.davem@davemloft.net>

I wonder if the added overhead of local_irq_disable/local_irq_enable is
killing any performance gain. Certainly it adds more latency to a sensitive code path.

Is there a good lock-less solution?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-19 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-18  2:34 [PATCH 1/2]: softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs David Miller
2008-09-18  4:35 ` Jens Axboe
2008-09-18  4:50   ` David Miller
2008-09-18  7:40     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-09-18  9:36       ` David Miller
2008-09-19 16:57         ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-09-19 20:29           ` David Miller

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