Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:07:53 -0700 | From | Rick Jones <> | Subject | Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface |
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> Just to be clear, in the previous email I posted on this thread, I > described a worst-case network ping-pong test case (send a packet, wait > for reply), and found out that a deffered interrupt scheme just damaged > the performance of the test case. Since the folks who came up with the > test case were adamant, I turned off the defferred interrupts. > While defferred interrupts are an "obvious" solution, I decided that > they weren't a good solution. (And I have no other solution to offer).
Sounds exactly like the default netperf TCP_RR test and any number of other benchmarks. The "send a request, wait for reply, send next request, etc etc etc" is a rather common application behaviour afterall.
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