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* Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> wrote: > BTW: > > My work on this has been mostly in the context of a 2.6 kernel based > generalization of a softIRQ as thread patch for 2.4 that enables > priority tuning of the bottom half processing as well as /proc support > for turning on and off the feature. We got it to work. > > However; I don't know what good workloads and metrics to measure the > goodness of the work look like. If folks think priority tuning of > bottom half processing is worth persuing and can help me quantify its > effectiveness better than running a jitter test while doing a BONNIE > test run on a SCSI JBOD, then I'm happy to do more with this. anything that generates a consistent interrupt rate is pretty good for testing. Networking is the most softirq-dependent code, so i'd say tbench over a real network ought to be a good benchmark. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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