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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:13:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271938428.4032.31.camel@bigi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271891149.7895.3751.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 01:05 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:


> [RFC] net: introduce a batch mode in process_backlog()
> 
> We see a lock contention on input_pkt_queue.lock in RPS benches.
> 
> As suggested by Changli Gao, we can batch several skbs at once in
> process_backlog(), so that we dirty input_pkt_queue less often.
> 

Ok, so i grab the latest and greatest net-next and apply this before
testing? Let me know..

cheers,
jamal


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-22 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-14  9:52 [PATCH v3] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Changli Gao
2010-04-14 11:58 ` jamal
2010-04-14 12:13   ` Changli Gao
2010-04-14 12:28     ` jamal
2010-04-14 15:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-14 23:13   ` Changli Gao
2010-04-21 23:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 23:23   ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-22  1:35     ` Changli Gao
2010-04-22  6:33   ` Changli Gao
2010-04-22  7:13     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-22  7:17       ` David Miller
2010-04-22 12:13   ` jamal [this message]

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