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From: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@mjufs.se>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, shemminger@vyatta.com,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, ak@gargoyle.fritz.box,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org,
	peterz@infradead.org
Subject: Re: OFT - reserving CPU's for networking
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 22:31:05 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.1005012222320.24624@wlug.westbo.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100430.115715.216750975.davem@davemloft.net>

On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, David Miller wrote:

> Then we can do cool tricks like having the cpu spin on a mwait() on the
> network device's status descriptor in memory.

Can you have mwait monitor multiple cachelines for stores? If not then it 
might be hard to do that when you have multiple nics and you actually 
need to use the status descriptors, otherwise you could possibly have them 
all written to the same cacheline. 
Or if the nic doesn't support updating a status descriptor in memory.

If you just want to wake up quickly without using interrupts it might be 
possible to abuse MSI to wake up without actually using interrupts, set 
the address to the cacheline that is being monitored.

/Martin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-01 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-23  8:12 [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Changli Gao
2010-04-23  9:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-23 22:02   ` jamal
2010-04-24 14:10     ` jamal
2010-04-26 14:03       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26 14:55         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26 21:06           ` jamal
     [not found]           ` <20100429174056.GA8044@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-29 17:56             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 18:10               ` OFT - reserving CPU's for networking Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-29 19:19                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-29 20:02                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 18:15                     ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-04-30 18:57                   ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:58                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-30 21:01                     ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-30 22:30                       ` David Miller
2010-05-01 10:53                         ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-01 22:03                           ` David Miller
2010-05-01 22:58                             ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-01 23:29                               ` David Miller
2010-05-01 23:44                             ` Ben Hutchings
2010-05-01 20:31                     ` Martin Josefsson [this message]
2010-05-01 22:13                       ` David Miller
     [not found]               ` <20100429182347.GA8512@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-29 19:12                 ` [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Eric Dumazet
     [not found]                   ` <20100429214144.GA10663@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-30  5:25                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 23:38                     ` David Miller
2010-05-01 11:00                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02  6:56                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02  9:20                           ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 10:54                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 14:13                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 14:27                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 15:32                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 17:54                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 19:22                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 22:06                                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-03  3:50                                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03  5:17                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-03 10:22                                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 10:34                                             ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-03 14:09                                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 14:45                                                 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-05-04  1:10                                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 15:52                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-04  1:11                                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 21:30                                     ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 15:46                               ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 16:35                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 17:43                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 17:47                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 21:25                                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 21:45                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 21:54                                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 22:08                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-03 20:15                                           ` jamal
2010-04-26 21:03         ` jamal
2010-04-23 10:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:08   ` David Miller
2010-04-27 22:18     ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2x: Remove two prefetch() Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:19       ` David Miller
2010-04-28 13:14         ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-04-28 15:44           ` Eliezer Tamir
2010-04-28 16:53           ` David Miller
     [not found]           ` <w2ue8f3c3211004280842r9f2589e8qb8fd4b7933cd9756@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-28 16:55             ` David Miller
2010-04-28 11:33       ` jamal
2010-04-28 12:33         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 12:36           ` jamal
2010-04-28 14:06             ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 14:19               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 14:34                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 21:36               ` David Miller
2010-04-28 22:22                 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ip_queue_rcv_skb() helper Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 22:39                   ` David Miller
2010-04-28 23:44               ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path jamal
2010-04-29  0:00                 ` jamal
2010-04-29  4:09                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 11:35                   ` jamal
2010-04-29 12:12                     ` Changli Gao
2010-04-29 12:45                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:17                         ` jamal
2010-04-29 13:21                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:37                             ` jamal
2010-04-29 13:49                               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:56                                 ` jamal
2010-04-29 20:36                                   ` jamal
2010-04-29 21:01                                     ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: sock_def_readable() and friends RCU conversion Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 13:55                                       ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-04-30 17:26                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 23:35                                       ` David Miller
2010-05-01  4:56                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01  7:02                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01  8:03                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 22:00                                             ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:30                                     ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path jamal
2010-04-30 20:40                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01  0:06                                         ` jamal
2010-05-01  5:57                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01  6:14                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 10:24                                               ` Changli Gao
2010-05-01 10:47                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 11:29                                               ` jamal
2010-05-01 11:23                                             ` jamal
2010-05-01 11:42                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 11:56                                                 ` jamal
2010-05-01 13:22                                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 13:49                                                     ` jamal
2010-05-03 20:10                                                   ` jamal
2010-04-29 23:07                         ` Changli Gao

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