From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel performance update - 2.6.14-rc3
Date: 06 Oct 2005 12:32:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73mzlnylzo.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510052115.j95LFgg07836@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> writes:
> Even though
> softirq is invoked at the end of dev_queue_xmit() via local_bh_enable(),
> not all execution of softirq will result a __wake_up(). With higher
> HZ rate, timer interrupt is more frequent and thus more softirq
> invocation and leads to more __wake_up(), which then takes us to higher
> throughput because cpu spend less time in idle.
This sounds like a serious bug somewhere if true.
-Andi
parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-06 10:32 UTC|newest]
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