From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100422.001718.112184991.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1271891149.7895.3751.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1271920402.7895.4732.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: xiaosuo@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, therbert@google.com, hadi@cyberus.ca To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45857 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751789Ab0DVHRN (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:17:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1271920402.7895.4732.camel@edumazet-laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:13:22 +0200 > No thanks, this is out of the question. > > Talk to ixiacom guys, some people settle/dismantle dozens of network > device per second, on production machines. Yes, ifup/ifdown performance is very important these days. Recently we've had to do a lot of work to increase scalability and latency in this area, let's not undo that.