Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:31:51 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 |
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* Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com <Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com> wrote:
> >regarding this particular latency, could you try the attached patch > >ontop of -Q5? It turns the ->poll() loop into separate, individually > >preemptable iterations instead of one batch of processing. In theory > >this should result in latency being lower regardless of the > >netdev_max_backlog value. > > First time - stopped during init script - when trying to start a network > service (automount).
in theory the patch is more or less equivalent to setting netdev_max_backlog to a value of 1 - could you try that setting too? (with the patch unapplied.)
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