Re: userspace irq balancer

Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-13T18:08:52Z

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:22:49PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 00:27:12 +0200
>
> I see your point, please try with 2.4.21rc4aa1 or with this patch:
>
> http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.21rc4aa1/00_ksoftirqd-max-loop-networking-1
>
> you can put a printk in the ksoftirqd loop and tune the N until it
> behaves as you want.
>
> Ingo's specweb testing indicated that a value somewhere between 8 and
> 10 appear optimal.

Sounds very good.

>
> I've pushed this change into Andrew's -mm 2.5.x patch set.

Thanks!

Andrea