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Subject: Re: [rfc/rft][patch] should use scheduler sync hint in
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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:27 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> This wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll() change might be good for loopback
> communications (and pleases tbench), but is it desirable for regular
> multi flows NIC traffic ?

If you can take high frequency cache misses, likely yes.  For localhost,
that's pretty much guaranteed currently (ergo the question).

	-Mike