From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
wenji@fnal.gov, akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] - Potential performance bottleneck for Linxu TCP
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:07:42 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456EAD6E.6040709@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061130095232.GA8990@2ka.mipt.ru>
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:35:04AM +0100, Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
> Doesn't the provided solution is just a in-kernel variant of the
> SCHED_FIFO set from userspace? Why kernel should be able to mark some
> users as having higher priority?
> What if workload of the system is targeted to not the maximum TCP
> performance, but maximum other-task performance, which will be broken
> with provided patch.
David's line of thinking for a solution sounds better to me. This patch
does not prevent the process from being preempted (for potentially a long
time), by any means.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-30 1:56 [patch 1/4] - Potential performance bottleneck for Linxu TCP Wenji Wu
2006-11-30 2:19 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 6:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 6:30 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 6:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 7:12 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 7:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 9:52 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-11-30 10:07 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-11-30 10:22 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-11-30 10:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 17:04 ` Wenji Wu
2006-11-30 20:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 20:58 ` Wenji Wu
2006-11-30 20:22 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 20:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 20:38 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 20:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 20:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 20:55 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 20:14 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 20:42 ` Wenji Wu
2006-12-01 9:53 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-01 23:18 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 6:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 16:08 ` Wenji Wu
2006-11-30 20:06 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 9:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-30 16:51 ` Lee Revell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-30 2:02 Wenji Wu
2006-11-30 6:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-29 23:27 [Changelog] " Wenji Wu
2006-11-29 23:28 ` [patch 1/4] " Wenji Wu
2006-11-30 0:53 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 1:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-30 1:13 ` David Miller
2006-11-30 6:04 ` Mike Galbraith
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