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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, eliezer.tamir@linux.jf.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	willemb@google.com, andi@firstfloor.org, eliezer@tamir.org.il
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] net: implement support for low latency socket polling
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:03:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51364F76.4060107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130305.145524.1486936679665458305.davem@davemloft.net>

On 03/05/2013 11:55 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:43:01 +0000
> 
>> In general it appears to require a run-time check.  You might need to
>> augment <asm/timex.h>.
> 
> On the other hand, unlike get_cycles, sched_clock() is always available.
> 

On the gripping hand, we need to know when it uses something like
jiffies, in which case we probably need to disable the whole interface.

	-hpa


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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: eliezer.tamir@linux.jf.intel.com, willemb@google.com,
	e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	andi@firstfloor.org, bhutchings@solarflare.com,
	eliezer@tamir.org.il
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] net: implement support for low latency socket polling
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:03:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51364F76.4060107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130305.145524.1486936679665458305.davem@davemloft.net>

On 03/05/2013 11:55 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:43:01 +0000
> 
>> In general it appears to require a run-time check.  You might need to
>> augment <asm/timex.h>.
> 
> On the other hand, unlike get_cycles, sched_clock() is always available.
> 

On the gripping hand, we need to know when it uses something like
jiffies, in which case we probably need to disable the whole interface.

	-hpa


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-05 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-27 17:55 [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 17:55 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] net: implement support for low latency socket polling Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-03 18:35   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-03 19:21     ` Andi Kleen
2013-03-03 21:20       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-04  3:55         ` Andi Kleen
2013-03-04  8:43     ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04 14:52       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-04 15:28         ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04 16:15           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-04  7:23   ` Cong Wang
2013-03-05 16:43   ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-05 16:43     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-05 17:15     ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-05 19:57       ` David Miller
2013-03-05 19:55     ` David Miller
2013-03-05 20:03       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-03-05 20:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-27 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] tcp: add TCP support for low latency receive poll Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-05 17:13   ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-05 17:13     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-27 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] ixgbe: Add support for ndo_ll_poll Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 18:41   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-27 19:20     ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-05 17:26   ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-05 17:26     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-05 17:28     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-05 17:28       ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-05 17:36       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-05 17:36         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-27 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] ixgbe: add extra stats " Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] ixgbe: kprobes latency test module Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 18:07 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 18:07   ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 18:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-02-27 18:47   ` Tom Herbert
2013-02-27 19:17     ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04 22:34       ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-27 19:58 ` Rick Jones
2013-02-27 20:40   ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-02-27 21:42     ` Ben Greear
2013-02-28  8:38       ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-01 21:24 ` David Miller
2013-03-01 22:57   ` Tom Herbert
2013-03-02 17:02   ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04  7:37 ` Cong Wang
2013-03-04  7:37   ` Cong Wang
2013-03-04  8:19   ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04  8:46     ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-03-04 17:19 ` Stephen Hemminger

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