From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754496Ab0CDIkr (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 03:40:47 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36170 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754417Ab0CDIkp (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 03:40:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:41:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20100304.004104.24320938.davem@davemloft.net> To: efault@gmx.de Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [rfc/rft][patch] should use scheduler sync hint in tcp_prequeue()? From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1267627610.6264.21.camel@marge.simson.net> References: <1267529273.2964.111.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20100303.060529.195713861.davem@davemloft.net> <1267627610.6264.21.camel@marge.simson.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Mike Galbraith Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:46:50 +0100 > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 06:05 -0800, David Miller wrote: > >> It definitely looks like an oversight to me and we should add >> be using wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll() in tcp_prequeue() >> as above. >> >> Ingo? > > Implied ack from network maintainer implies ship it to me. > > net: add scheduler sync hint to tcp_prequeue(). > > Decreases the odds wakee will suffer from frequent cache misses. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith Applied.