From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question on pktgen shutdown logic.
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 16:52:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519D5A36.6030000@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369265749.3301.372.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
On 05/22/2013 04:35 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 16:28 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>> Ahh, so it waits for the pktgen_thread_worker method to return?
>>
>> Why do we bother with the pktgen_exiting flag at all...it
>> would seem that just checking kthread_should_stop() would
>> do the trick?
>
> If you have 4096 cpus, setting pktgen_exiting permits all pktgen exiting
> faster.
>
> Otherwise you wait about 400 seconds (4096 * HZ/10)
Ok, I think I understand now.
Thanks,
Ben
>
>
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-22 23:15 question on pktgen shutdown logic Ben Greear
2013-05-22 23:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-22 23:28 ` Ben Greear
2013-05-22 23:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-22 23:52 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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