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From: "dada1" <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>, "Simon Kirby" <sim@netnation.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>,
	<davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Longstanding networking / SMP issue? (duplextest)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:03:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <008601c2d8cf$a60e4c60$760010ac@edumazet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030220105435.GD10374@wotan.suse.de



> > Yes IP is best-effort. But this argument cant explain why IP on linux
works
> > better if we disable SMP on linux...
>
> It has nothing to do with SMP. The lazy locking dropping packets can
happen
> on UP kernels too in extreme cases. Also with preempt.
>

Well, I too noticed that binding NIC IRQS one one CPU

echo 1 > /proc/irq/18/smp_affinity

helps a lot in normal cases.

Some of us want SMP machine because application needs a lot of CPU, but we
also need to not drop frames to save the limited network bandwith.

Thanks


  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-20 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030219174757.GA5373@netnation.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-02-20  7:52 ` Longstanding networking / SMP issue? (duplextest) Andi Kleen
2003-02-20  7:38   ` David S. Miller
2003-02-20  9:20   ` Simon Kirby
2003-02-20  9:34     ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-20 10:12       ` dada1
2003-02-20 10:54         ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-20 11:03           ` dada1 [this message]
2003-02-21  4:24       ` David S. Miller
2003-02-21  7:27         ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-21  9:43           ` David S. Miller
2003-02-21 10:22             ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-21 10:11               ` David S. Miller
2003-02-21 10:45                 ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-23  9:12                   ` David S. Miller
2003-02-23 10:02                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-23  9:55                       ` David S. Miller
2003-02-23 10:30                         ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-23 10:23                           ` David S. Miller
2003-02-23 10:37                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-23  9:58                       ` David S. Miller
2003-02-21 15:15       ` Bill Davidsen
2003-02-19 17:47 Simon Kirby
2003-02-19 21:17 ` David S. Miller

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