Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:39:14 -0700 | From | Josh MacDonald <> | Subject | Re: [patch] softirq performance fixes, cleanups, 2.4.10. |
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Quoting Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br): > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > > > Please, explain who exactly obtains an advantage of looping. > > net_rx_action()? Do you see drops in backlog? > > > net_tx_action()? It does not look critical. > > Then how would you explain the 10% speed difference > Ben and others have seen with gigabit ethernet ?
Could this possibly be due to I-cache improvements? If the same interrupt handling code is being run 10 times at once you should expect an improvement of that kind.
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