From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Separate IRQ-stacks from 4K-stacks option
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:50:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4176A555.3000400@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040913061641.GA11276@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> it is not intended for servers, due to the overhead of redirection. It's
> for realtime workloads and for latency-sensitive audio desktop
> workloads. For servers and normal desktops the current IRQ and softirq
> model is pretty OK.
>
I commented previously about the preemption allowing the kernel to keep
more resources busy. So if you have 6 disk controllers and 4 NICs, the
preemption can allow the kernel to keep more of them busier at the same
time, while without preemption, one resource might get starved while
non-preemptable code is servicing another.
This makes the overhead very much worth it.
Are there test results which demonstrate that this theory doesn't apply
practically to real-world server loads?
I would expect a very busy server to be helped by this in a noticable
way, but then I am often short-sighted. :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-20 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 23:25 [PATCH 1/3] Separate IRQ-stacks from 4K-stacks option Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-09 23:55 ` Brian Gerst
2004-09-09 23:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 6:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 6:45 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 6:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 7:15 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 7:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 7:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 7:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 9:12 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 9:14 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 10:27 ` Russell King
2004-09-10 14:30 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-10 15:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 15:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-09-10 15:12 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 15:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 15:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-10 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 15:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-12 14:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-12 15:03 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-12 15:45 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 16:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-10-20 16:27 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-21 15:18 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 19:18 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-12 19:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-12 19:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 19:40 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-12 19:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 20:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-12 21:36 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-12 22:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-12 22:25 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-13 6:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-13 7:27 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-15 19:43 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-15 19:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 20:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 20:39 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 17:50 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2004-09-13 7:32 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-13 10:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-13 10:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-13 12:30 ` Jens Axboe
2004-10-20 17:46 ` Timothy Miller
2004-09-13 10:51 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-13 20:26 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-14 5:20 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 15:46 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-20 15:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-20 16:39 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 16:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-20 16:55 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 17:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-20 17:15 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 17:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-20 17:58 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-20 17:55 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 18:25 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-20 18:28 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 18:51 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-20 23:19 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-10 15:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-10-20 15:43 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-20 15:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 15:58 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-10 16:19 ` Nathan Bryant
2004-09-10 17:54 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-10 17:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-10 9:27 ` Alan Cox
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