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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com
Cc: leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000 performance issue in 4 simultaneous links
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:28:30 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080110.172830.16409182.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36D9DB17C6DE9E40B059440DB8D95F5204275B04@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com>

From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:52:15 -0800

> I hope this explanation makes sense, but what it comes down to is that
> combining hardware round robin balancing with NAPI is a BAD IDEA.

Absolutely agreed on all counts.

No IRQ balancing should be done at all for networking device
interrupts, with zero exceptions.  It destroys performance.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-11  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-10 16:17 e1000 performance issue in 4 simultaneous links Breno Leitao
2008-01-10 16:36 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-01-10 16:51   ` Jeba Anandhan
2008-01-10 17:31   ` Breno Leitao
2008-01-10 18:18     ` Kok, Auke
2008-01-10 18:37     ` Rick Jones
2008-01-10 18:26 ` Rick Jones
2008-01-10 20:52 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2008-01-11  1:28   ` David Miller [this message]
2008-01-11 11:09     ` Benny Amorsen
2008-01-12  1:41       ` David Miller
2008-01-12  5:13         ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-01-30 16:57           ` Kok, Auke
2008-01-11 16:20   ` Breno Leitao
2008-01-11 16:48     ` Eric Dumazet
2008-01-11 17:36       ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-01-11 18:45         ` Breno Leitao
2008-01-11 18:19       ` Breno Leitao
2008-01-11 18:48         ` Rick Jones

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