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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: posible latency issues in seq_read
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:39:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A1399C.8010405@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75b66ecd0707201518j45ef8bb7q7e48462ffbbc9c58@mail.gmail.com>

Lee Revell wrote:
> On 7/20/07, Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:

>> We've run into an issue (on 2.6.10) where calling "lsof" triggers lost
>> packets on our server.  Preempt is disabled, and NAPI is enabled.

> Can you reproduce with a recent kernel?  Lots of latency issues have
> been fixed since then.

Unfortunately I have to fix it on this version (the bug was found on 
shipped product), so if there was a difference I'd have to isolate the 
changes and backport them.  Also, I can't run the software that triggers 
the problem on a newer kernel as it has dependencies on various patches 
that are not in mainline.

Basically what I'd like to know is whether calling schedule() in 
seq_read() is safe or whether it would break assumptions made by 
seq_file users.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-20 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-20 21:15 posible latency issues in seq_read Chris Friesen
2007-07-20 22:18 ` Lee Revell
2007-07-20 22:39   ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2007-07-21  3:46     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-07-23 17:45       ` Chris Friesen

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