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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com
Cc: "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@felipe-alfaro.com>,
	Daniel Schmitt <pnambic@unu.nu>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:31:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040831063151.GA29795@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF8AC76C1C.20634F1C-ON86256F00.007813C0@raytheon.com>


* Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com <Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com> wrote:

> >regarding this particular latency, could you try the attached patch
> >ontop of -Q5? It turns the ->poll() loop into separate, individually
> >preemptable iterations instead of one batch of processing. In theory
> >this should result in latency being lower regardless of the
> >netdev_max_backlog value.
> 
> First time - stopped during init script - when trying to start a network
> service (automount).

in theory the patch is more or less equivalent to setting
netdev_max_backlog to a value of 1 - could you try that setting too?
(with the patch unapplied.)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-31  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-30 22:04 [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-31  6:31 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-09-01  7:30 ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found] <OFD220F58F.002C5901-ON86256F02.005C2FB1-86256F02.005C2FD5@raytheon.com>
2004-09-01 17:09 ` Ingo Molnar
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2004-09-01 15:21 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-09-02 22:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-01 14:37 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-09-01 19:31 ` Takashi Iwai
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     [not found]                   ` <2znJS-5Pm-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-31 23:06                     ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]                     ` <2znJS-5Pm-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]                       ` <2znJS-5Pm-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]                         ` <2znJS-5Pm-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]                           ` <2znJS-5Pm-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-31 23:10                             ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-01  7:05                               ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:10 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-31 20:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 15:17 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-31 17:20 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 18:09   ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 18:53     ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-31 18:56       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-02 16:59         ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-09-02 17:50           ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 18:19   ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-31 18:48     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:02       ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-31 18:50   ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 12:46 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-30 19:13 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-30 19:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31  8:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-02  6:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 17:52 [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q0 Lee Revell
2004-08-28 19:44 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q2 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 20:10   ` Daniel Schmitt
2004-08-28 20:31     ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q3 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 21:10       ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 21:13         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 21:16           ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 23:51             ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29  2:35               ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29  5:43                 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q4 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30  9:06                   ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 14:25                     ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-30 18:00                       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:23                         ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-31 19:30                           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:45                             ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-31  6:40                     ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31  6:53                       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 23:03                         ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 15:52                           ` Martin Josefsson
2004-09-01 21:15                             ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 21:30                             ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31  7:06                       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:21                         ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 19:37                           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:47                             ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 19:51                               ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:09                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:10                                   ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 20:14                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:20                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:34                                         ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 20:39                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:41                                             ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 17:40                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2004-09-01  1:43                     ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01  2:30                     ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01  7:27                     ` Lee Revell

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