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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Removing busy-spin in pktgen.
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:34:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <453E409E.9010002@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061024.031455.55723788.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:16:05 +0200
>
>   
>>  My first instinct is to avoid the hook in general code and pktgen let spin 
>>  to only affect testing.
>>     
>
> Mine too.
>
> Why make everyone in the world make that check in netif_wake_queue(),
> or wherever, when %99.99999999999 of the time it'll never be used?
>   
It could be a compile-time option, and even if compiled in, it should 
only be an if  branch on
a pointer.  Is there any noticeable performance hit for an if check if 
you wrap it with unlikely?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-24 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-24  0:02 RFC: Removing busy-spin in pktgen Ben Greear
2006-10-24  9:16 ` Robert Olsson
2006-10-24 10:14   ` David Miller
2006-10-24 16:34     ` Ben Greear [this message]
2006-10-24 22:09       ` David Miller
2006-10-24 16:28   ` Ben Greear

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