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From: Brian Kuschak <bkuschak@yahoo•com>
To: "Vladimir A. Gurevich" <vag@paulidav•org>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org, linuxppc@opqua•com
Subject: Re: routing performance w/embedded linux on ppc?
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:08:28 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031201190828.20157.qmail@web40911.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FC59BAE.3020801@paulidav.org>


Hi Vlad,

>
> Starting with 2.4.19 or so, I'd recommend looking at
> NAPI to do
> interrupt mitigation instead. Please look at
> ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/
>

Yes, it looks interesting!  I'm glad this is being
introduced as a mechanism for all drivers to use.

I haven't had time to study it in detail, but I'm a
little concerned about NAPI using the softirq context.
 In the 2.4 kernels I've seen various performance
issues related to ksoftirqd.  Perhaps this has been
fixed in 2.6...

> > On top of that, you can implement
> > CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE in the driver, bypassing most
> of
> > the IP stack.
>
> But, of course, you'll loose IP tables. Also,

Yes, an important point.

-Brian


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-01 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-26 18:18 routing performance w/embedded linux on ppc? Brian Kuschak
2003-11-27  4:11 ` linuxppc user
2003-11-27  6:37 ` Vladimir A. Gurevich
2003-12-01 19:08   ` Brian Kuschak [this message]
     [not found] <F9102D41F595D311ACA7009027DE2C8408EBBA92@c3po.heurikon.com>
2003-11-26  4:21 ` linuxppc user
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-25  4:18 linuxppc user
2003-11-26 19:18 ` Peter Vandenabeele

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