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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ossthema@de.ibm.com
Cc: tklein@de.ibm.com, themann@de.ibm.com, stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, jchapman@katalix.com, raisch@de.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	akepner@sgi.com, meder@de.ibm.com,
	shemminger@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:27:41 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070828.132741.118957759.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708281321.10679.ossthema@de.ibm.com>

From: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:21:09 +0200

> So I guess one solution is to "force" an HW interrupt when two many
> RQs are processed on the same CPU (when no IRQ pinning is
> used). This is something the driver has to handle.

No, the solution is to lock the interrupts onto one specific
processor and don't move it around.  That's what's causing
all of the problems.

And you can enforce this policy now in the driver even if just
for testing by calling the set_affinity() interfaces on the
interrupts your driver has.

You can even walk over the cpu_online_map and choose a load
distribution of your liking.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-28 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ 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 15:37 ` akepner
2007-08-24 15:47   ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 15:52     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-24 16:50       ` David Stevens
2007-08-24 21:44         ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:51           ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 16:51       ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 17:07         ` Rick Jones
2007-08-24 17:45         ` Shirley Ma
2007-08-24 17:16       ` James Chapman
2007-08-24 18:11         ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 21:47         ` David Miller
2007-08-24 22:06           ` akepner
2007-08-26 19:36           ` James Chapman
2007-08-27  1:58             ` David Miller
2007-08-27  9:47               ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 20:37                 ` David Miller
2007-08-28 11:19                   ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 20:21                     ` David Miller
2007-08-29  7:10                       ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29  8:15                         ` James Chapman
2007-08-29  8:43                           ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-29  8:29                         ` David Miller
2007-08-29  8:31                           ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 15:51               ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 16:02                 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-27 17:05                   ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 21:02                 ` David Miller
2007-08-27 21:41                   ` James Chapman
2007-08-27 21:56                     ` David Miller
2007-08-28  9:22                       ` James Chapman
2007-08-28 11:48                         ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 12:16                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-28 14:55                           ` James Chapman
2007-08-28 11:21                   ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-28 20:25                     ` David Miller
2007-08-28 20:27                     ` David Miller [this message]
2007-08-24 16:45 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 21:43   ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:32 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 21:37 ` David Miller
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     [not found] ` <8VKwj-8ke-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-08-24 19:04   ` Bodo Eggert
2007-08-24 20:42     ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-24 21:11       ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-08-24 21:35         ` Linas Vepstas

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