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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: question about softirqs
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 21:45:40 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090512.214540.147824481.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905120818290.13234@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 08:20:51 -0400 (EDT)

> I'm going to be playing around with bypassing the net-rx/tx with my 
> network drivers. I'm going to add threaded irqs for my network cards and 
> have the driver threads do the work to get through the tcp/ip stack.
> 
> I'll still keep the softirqs for other cards, but I want to see how fast 
> it speeds things up if I have the driver thread do it.

I think your latency is going to be dreadful.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-13  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <18948.63755.279732.294842@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
     [not found] ` <20090508.234815.127227651.davem@davemloft.net>
     [not found]   ` <4A086DB2.8040703@nortel.com>
     [not found]     ` <20090511.162436.193717082.davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-12  0:43       ` question about softirqs Chris Friesen
2009-05-12  8:12         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-12  9:12           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12  9:23             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-12  9:32               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12 12:20                 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-13  4:45                   ` David Miller [this message]
2009-05-13  4:44               ` David Miller
2009-05-13  5:15                 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-05-13  5:28                   ` David Miller
2009-05-13  5:55             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-05-12 15:18           ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-13  8:34             ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-13 13:23               ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-13 14:15                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-13 14:17                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-13 14:24                     ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-13 14:54                       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-05-13 15:02                         ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-13 15:05                       ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-13 15:54                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-13 16:10                           ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-13 17:01                         ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-13 19:04                           ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-13 19:13                             ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-13 19:44                               ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-13 19:53                                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-13 20:55                                   ` Thomas Gleixner

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