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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-13 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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