From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, dada1@cosmosbay.com, rick.jones2@hp.com,
johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, denys@visp.net.lb, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: loaded router, excessive getnstimeofday in oprofile\
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:38:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080827223828.GD26610@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080827.152314.218610441.davem@davemloft.net>
> This is a much different kind of delay compared to sleeping for seconds
> or longer on the socket lock while a GFP_KERNEL allocation is being
> satisfied by swapping tons of crap out to disk.
When this happens then new incoming packets will be lost anyways
because there will be no new packets fed back into the RX ring
because their allocation will either stall or fail too.
I don't think time stamps of dropped packets are very useful ;-)
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-22 1:57 loaded router, excessive getnstimeofday in oprofile Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-22 2:23 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-26 9:51 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-08-26 10:29 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-26 10:47 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-08-26 10:49 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-26 11:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-08-26 11:15 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-08-26 11:16 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-26 11:32 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-08-26 11:32 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-26 20:14 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-08-26 20:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-08-26 20:51 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-08-27 12:09 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-27 12:36 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-08-27 14:00 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-27 14:23 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-08-27 12:54 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 16:07 ` Rick Jones
2008-08-27 16:27 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 16:49 ` Rick Jones
2008-08-27 16:56 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 16:57 ` Rick Jones
2008-08-27 17:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-08-27 18:32 ` loaded router, excessive getnstimeofday in oprofile\ Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 22:23 ` David Miller
2008-08-27 22:38 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-08-27 22:18 ` loaded router, excessive getnstimeofday in oprofile David Miller
2008-08-27 22:39 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-28 0:45 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-28 0:48 ` David Miller
2008-08-28 1:07 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-27 16:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-27 17:14 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-08-27 21:34 ` David Miller
2008-08-28 2:39 ` Jason Uhlenkott
2008-08-28 3:10 ` David Miller
2008-08-28 6:28 ` Joe Malicki
2008-08-28 7:22 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-28 15:02 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-28 19:01 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-08-28 19:31 ` David Miller
2008-08-28 16:48 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-28 16:56 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-28 18:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-08-28 19:25 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-28 19:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-08-28 19:55 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-29 15:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-28 19:36 ` David Miller
2008-08-28 19:59 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-08-29 15:21 ` Joe Malicki
2008-08-29 15:30 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-29 15:43 ` Joe Malicki
2008-08-29 20:43 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-08-28 18:00 ` Rick Jones
2008-08-28 19:42 ` David Miller
2008-08-28 20:29 ` Rick Jones
2008-08-28 20:32 ` David Miller
2008-08-28 20:45 ` Rick Jones
2008-08-28 20:47 ` David Miller
2008-09-01 2:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-09-01 3:51 ` David Miller
2008-09-01 4:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-09-01 4:10 ` David Miller
2008-09-02 17:04 ` Rick Jones
2008-08-28 3:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-28 8:49 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
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