From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: danial_thom@yahoo.com, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sven@mvista.com>,
Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:29:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <430BB16E.8030808@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430B89BE.1020600@trash.net>
Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Danial Thom wrote:
>
>>None of this is helpful, but since no one has
>>been able to tell me how to tune it to provide
>>absolute priority to the network stack I'll
>>assume it can't be done.
>
>
> The network stack already has priority over user processes,
> except when executed in process context, so preemption has
> no direct impact on briding or routing performance.
Well, NAPI puts a lot more of the packet processing in
process context, including the code that would do routing
I believe.
To give networking more priority, you can re-nice the ksoftirqd
process(es) to a high-priority level like -18 or so.
You can also reserve more memory for the networking stack
and increase the size of the permitted buffers.
I am also interested to hear how your system responds to compiling
w/out PREEMPT.
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-23 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-21 16:57 2.6.12 Performance problems Danial Thom
2005-08-23 7:12 ` Helge Hafting
2005-08-23 17:10 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-23 17:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-08-24 16:24 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-24 16:35 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-24 17:26 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-25 4:51 ` Ben Greear
2005-08-25 6:08 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-25 6:15 ` Ben Greear
2005-08-26 3:29 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-26 22:18 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-25 6:34 ` Ben Greear
2005-08-25 14:26 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-25 16:55 ` Ben Greear
2005-08-25 20:45 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-26 19:10 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-08-27 11:19 ` Vladimir B. Savkin
2005-08-27 14:35 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-23 18:02 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2005-08-23 20:10 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-23 20:22 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2005-08-24 16:33 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-23 20:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-08-23 23:29 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2005-08-24 16:39 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-23 21:32 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-24 17:03 ` Danial Thom
[not found] <2230.192.167.206.189.1124721719.squirrel@new.host.name>
2005-08-22 15:41 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-26 13:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-26 15:34 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-26 16:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-26 17:06 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-26 18:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-26 21:09 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-26 23:27 ` Ben Greear
2005-08-27 14:44 ` Danial Thom
[not found] <9a87484905082111205d27c1aa@mail.gmail.com>
2005-08-21 20:21 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-21 21:21 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-22 11:46 ` Denis Vlasenko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-21 17:07 Danial Thom
2005-08-21 15:46 Danial Thom
2005-08-21 16:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-08-21 16:18 ` Danial Thom
2005-08-21 16:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-08-21 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
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