Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q7

Peter Zijlstra
2004-09-01T20:20:21Z

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 19:09 +0200, Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote :
> > i've released the -Q7 patch:
> >
> > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q7
>
> With Q7 I still get rx latency issues (> 130 us non-preemptible section
> from rtl8139_poll). Moreover network connections were extremely slow
> (almost hung) until I set /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_backlog_granularity
> to 2.
>
> Thomas
>

Me too!
I too have a rtl8139 network card.

kr, what kind of nic do you have since this does not occur on your
machine?

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Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>