From: Peppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Stuart MENEFY <stuart.menefy@st.com>,
"linux-sh@vger.kernel.org" <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux@arm.linux.org.uk" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH (sh-2.6) 1/4] clksource: Generic timer infrastructure
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 07:53:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D708C7E.8010204@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103031455.25089.arnd@arndb.de>
On 3/3/2011 2:55 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> On Thursday 03 March 2011, Peppe CAVALLARO wrote:
> > This logic is already in the driver, indeed.
> > What I've seen on our embedded systems is that the
> > cost of RX interrupts is very hight and NAPI partially helps.
> > Typically, in an IP-STB, I receive a burst of UDP pkt
> > and this means that many interrupts occur (~99% of CPU
> > usage on slow platforms).
> > With the ext timer I was able to reduce the CPU usage in
> > these kind of scenarios to ~50%.
>
> I don't understand. Shouldn't the interrupts be stopped as long
> as the system is busy? This sounds like a bug in your NAPI
> handling, or maybe you just need to use a lower NAPI_WEIGHT
> so you stay in polling mode longer.
>
Hi Arnd,
yes you are right, in fact, I do not receive an interrupt
for each frame received but the average of the frames
I found in the ring is very low.
At any rate, let me do some tests so i'll come back with
some numbers. In the meantime, I'm looking at the napi
support inside the driver and experiment with lower
NAPI_WEIGHT (default is 64).
Peppe
>
>
> Arnd
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-22 10:17 [PATCH 0/4] simple generic timer infrastructure and stmmac example Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-02-22 10:17 ` [PATCH (sh-2.6) 1/4] clksource: Generic timer infrastructure Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-02-24 17:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-01 15:20 ` Stuart Menefy
2011-03-01 16:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-01 20:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-01 20:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-01 16:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-02 17:35 ` Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-03-03 8:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-03 10:25 ` Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-03-03 13:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-04 6:53 ` Peppe CAVALLARO [this message]
2012-06-12 3:04 ` Paul Mundt
2011-02-22 10:17 ` [PATCH (sh-2.6) 2/4] sh_timer: add the support to use the generic timer Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-02-22 10:17 ` [PATCH (net-2.6) 3/4] stmmac: switch to use the new generic timer interface Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-02-22 10:17 ` [PATCH (net-2.6) 4/4] stmmac: rework and improvement the stmmac timer Peppe CAVALLARO
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