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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Chetan.Loke@Emulex.Com
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, fweisbec@gmail.com,
	jbaron@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk,
	mhiramat@redhat.com, fche@redhat.com, haoki@redhat.com,
	t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro
Subject: RE: [patch 3/9] LTTng instrumentation tasklets
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:17:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237990678.7972.1094.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BD597E014482714090555A6376F9CA8B771BE5A0BD@EXMAIL.ad.emulex.com>

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 06:52 -0700, Chetan.Loke@Emulex.Com wrote:
> Quick question. I understand this is unrelated to this patch. So I
> apologize in advance.
> Ingo - you mentioned "tasklets are a legacy mechanism". Is there a
> plan to phase them out ? Let me draw a small picture as to what's
> bothering me.
> 
> With the SR-IOV support if there are 'N' virtual functions then there
> will be 'N' driver instances(actually N+1, 1 for the PF). If that
> driver drains the responses in the interrupt context then all such
> VF-instances could virtually block everyone else(because SR-IOV guys
> might also have MSI-X enabled).
> So now all such drivers should alter their Rx path.Driver's can queue
> tasklets and can also get the performance they want.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Threaded interrupts?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-24 15:56 [patch 0/9] LTTng core kernel instrumentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 15:56 ` [patch 1/9] IRQ handle prepare for instrumentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 15:56 ` [patch 2/9] LTTng instrumentation - irq Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 17:33   ` Jason Baron
2009-03-24 17:50     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 17:57       ` Jason Baron
2009-03-24 19:12         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 20:11           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 20:51             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25  8:47               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 18:30                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-25  2:00             ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-26 18:27               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-27 22:53                 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-02  2:42                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-25  2:09             ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-26 18:28               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-27 19:18           ` Jason Baron
2009-03-24 19:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-27 22:12   ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-24 15:56 ` [patch 3/9] LTTng instrumentation tasklets Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 17:56   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 13:52     ` Chetan.Loke
2009-03-25 14:17       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-03-25 17:37         ` Chetan.Loke
2009-03-25 17:52           ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-24 15:56 ` [patch 4/9] LTTng instrumentation softirq Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 18:01   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 15:56 ` [patch 5/9] LTTng instrumentation scheduler fix task migration Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 17:53   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 15:56 ` [patch 6/9] LTTng instrumentation - timer Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 18:21   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 19:14     ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-24 20:47       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-27 22:05         ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-24 15:56 ` [patch 7/9] LTTng instrumentation - kernel Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 18:33   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25  1:13     ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-25  8:40       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 13:06     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-24 15:56 ` [patch 8/9] LTTng instrumentation - filemap Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 18:39   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 15:56 ` [patch 9/9] LTTng instrumentation - swap Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-24 18:51   ` Ingo Molnar

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