From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
To: Peppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st•com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>,
Stuart MENEFY <stuart.menefy@st•com>,
"linux-sh@vger•kernel.org" <linux-sh@vger•kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
John Stultz <johnstul@us•ibm.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
"linux@arm•linux.org.uk" <linux@arm•linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH (sh-2.6) 1/4] clksource: Generic timer infrastructure
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 14:55:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103031455.25089.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6F6C96.1010303@st.com>
On Thursday 03 March 2011, Peppe CAVALLARO wrote:
> This logic is already in the driver, indeed.
> What I've seen on our embedded systems is that the
> cost of RX interrupts is very hight and NAPI partially helps.
> Typically, in an IP-STB, I receive a burst of UDP pkt
> and this means that many interrupts occur (~99% of CPU
> usage on slow platforms).
> With the ext timer I was able to reduce the CPU usage in
> these kind of scenarios to ~50%.
I don't understand. Shouldn't the interrupts be stopped as long
as the system is busy? This sounds like a bug in your NAPI
handling, or maybe you just need to use a lower NAPI_WEIGHT
so you stay in polling mode longer.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-03 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-22 10:17 [PATCH 0/4] simple generic timer infrastructure and stmmac example Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-02-22 10:17 ` [PATCH (sh-2.6) 1/4] clksource: Generic timer infrastructure Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-02-24 17:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-01 15:20 ` Stuart Menefy
2011-03-01 16:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-01 20:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-01 20:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-01 16:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-02 17:35 ` Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-03-03 8:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-03 10:25 ` Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-03-03 13:55 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-03-04 6:53 ` Peppe CAVALLARO
2012-06-12 3:04 ` Paul Mundt
2011-02-22 10:17 ` [PATCH (sh-2.6) 2/4] sh_timer: add the support to use the generic timer Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-02-22 10:17 ` [PATCH (net-2.6) 3/4] stmmac: switch to use the new generic timer interface Peppe CAVALLARO
2011-02-22 10:17 ` [PATCH (net-2.6) 4/4] stmmac: rework and improvement the stmmac timer Peppe CAVALLARO
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