From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762178AbZCNCHR (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:07:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761922AbZCNBvw (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:51:52 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:34372 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761977AbZCNBvu (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:51:50 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:51:50 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Tom Herbert Cc: David Miller , yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, andi@firstfloor.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, shemminger@vyatta.com Subject: Re: [RFC v2: Patch 1/3] net: hand off skb list to other cpu to submit to upper layer Message-ID: <20090314015150.GL11935@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1236866906.3221.11.camel@achroite> <1236926602.2567.528.camel@ymzhang> <65634d660903131006n44f068dw18b2fe9dce25399e@mail.gmail.com> <20090313.115137.254924980.davem@davemloft.net> <65634d660903131358h765bef64y6a0f1b0db7400f6f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <65634d660903131358h765bef64y6a0f1b0db7400f6f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > We are trying to follow the decisions scheduler as opposed to leading it. > This works on very loaded systems, with applications binding to cpusets, One possible solution would be then to just not bind to cpusets and give the scheduler the freedom it needs instead? -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.