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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: increase receive packet quantum
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:48:00 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081104.144800.158229098.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081103212521.15e12168@extreme>

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:25:21 -0800

> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:24:28 -0800 (PST)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'll apply this to net-next-2.6, thanks Stephen.
> 
> Maybe you want it as part of the tbench regression recovery in 2.6.28?
> it seems mostly harmless.

Maybe...

I'd rather have it cook in net-next-2.6 for a while.

Taking up more than a jiffie in softirq context is
bordering on anti-social and could cause problems
especially for RT'ish stuff.

And I'm pretty sure that's why I made the change.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-04 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-03 21:03 [PATCH] net: increase receive packet quantum Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-04  1:24 ` David Miller
2008-11-04  5:25   ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-04 22:48     ` David Miller [this message]

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