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From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [patch] softirq performance fixes, cleanups, 2.4.10.
Date: 30 Sep 2001 11:37:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89pdkdu1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109291635.UAA17377@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200109291635.UAA17377@ms2.inr.ac.ru>

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru  wrote on 29.09.01 in <200109291635.UAA17377@ms2.inr.ac.ru>:

> Essentially, if we invent some real condition when softirq loop must be
> stopped, we win. Now it is "stop after all events pending at start are
> processed". OK, it is wrong. You propose: "10 rounds". It is even worse
> because it is against plain logic. (pardon :-)).

The way I understand from this thread, the condition is *not* "10 rounds",  
it is "no more new softirqs are pending when we want to leave" - except it  
does a sort of emergency abort if 10 rounds weren't enough to get to that  
condition.

MfG Kai

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-30 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-26 16:44 [patch] softirq performance fixes, cleanups, 2.4.10 Ingo Molnar
2001-09-26 17:48 ` Mike Kravetz
2001-09-26 18:48   ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-26 18:55 ` Russell King
2001-09-26 19:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-27 23:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28  3:20   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28  7:34     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28 15:17       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28  7:18   ` [patch] softirq-2.4.10-B2 Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28 15:58     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28 18:36     ` Simon Kirby
2001-09-28 18:47       ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28 19:31         ` kuznet
2001-09-28 16:18 ` [patch] softirq performance fixes, cleanups, 2.4.10 kuznet
2001-09-28 16:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28 17:04     ` kuznet
2001-09-28 17:21       ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-28 17:31         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28 17:41         ` kuznet
2001-09-28 17:46           ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28 18:39         ` Josh MacDonald
2001-09-28 17:31       ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28 17:56         ` kuznet
2001-09-28 18:28           ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28 19:23             ` kuznet
2001-09-28 19:48               ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-29 16:35                 ` kuznet
2001-09-30  9:37                   ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2001-09-30  9:01               ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28 19:39             ` kuznet
2001-09-28 20:03               ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28 18:51           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-28 16:32   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28 16:46     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28 16:58       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28 16:35   ` [patch] softirq-2.4.10-B3 Ingo Molnar
2001-09-29  0:40     ` J . A . Magallon
2001-09-29 11:03   ` [patch] softirq performance fixes, cleanups, 2.4.10 Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-27 23:29 Oleg Nesterov
2001-09-28  0:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28  6:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-28  2:50 Oleg Nesterov
2001-09-28  7:56 ` Ingo Molnar

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