Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:36:11 -0500 | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: How to optimize routing performance |
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:17:19AM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: > > > > > There are some scheduler patches that are not part of the > > > main kernel tree at this point (mostly since they have yet to > > > be optimized for the common case) which make quite a big > > > difference under heavy load - you might want to check out: > > > > > > http://lse.sourceforge.net/scheduling/ > > > > Unrelated. Fun, but unrelated to networking... > > under high load, where the sheer numbet of interrupts > per second begins to overwhelm the kernel, might it [snip] > Or are you saying that the bottleneck is somewhere > else completely, or that there wouldn't be a bottleneck > in this case if certain kernel parameters were correctly > set?
The scheduler schedules tasks not interrupts. Unless it manages to thrash the cache, the scheduler can not affect routing performance.
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