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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>
To: hadi@cyberus•ca
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	eric.dumazet@gmail•com, therbert@google•com,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, robert@herjulf•net, xiaosuo@gmail•com,
	andi@firstfloor•org
Subject: Re: rps perfomance WAS(Re: rps: question
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:25:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC77636.5060506@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271362581.23780.12.camel@bigi>

jamal wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 09:41 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> 
> 
>>IPS (~= RPS) was running on shared FSB HP9000's.  Now, that was also a BSD 
>>networking stack with netisrq's and the like.  TOPS (~= RFS) was also run on 
>>shared FSB HP9000s, as well as CC-NUMA HP9000s and Integrity systems.  TOPS was 
>>implemented in a Streams-based stack tracing its history to a common ancestor 
>>with Solaris (Mentat).
> 
> 
> Sounds interesting.
> Wikipedia information overload. Any arch description of the HP9000? 

I should have been more specific - HP 9000 Model 800's :) PA-RISC based business 
computers running HP-UX.  In the case of IPS, HP-UX 10.20 ca 1995 or so.

> Did your scheme use IPIs to message the other CPUs?

Netisrs were kernel processes one per CPU (back then a core, a processor and a 
CPU were one and the same :), and while we didn't call them IPI's, yes, it was a 
"soft interrupt" directed at the given processor to launch the netisr if it 
wasn't already running.

TOPS was similar, but was with Streams and that did/does have some kernel 
processes not everything would happen as a kernel process.

rick jones

HP 3000 Model 900's - by and large the same PA-RISC hardware but running MPE/XL 
(later called MPE/iX)
HP 9000 Model 700's - PA-RISC based workstations
HP 9000 Model 300's - Moto 68K-based workstations (replaced by the 700s)

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-15 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-07 18:42 rps: question jamal
2010-02-08  5:58 ` Tom Herbert
2010-02-08 15:09   ` jamal
2010-04-14 11:53     ` rps perfomance WAS(Re: " jamal
2010-04-14 17:31       ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-14 18:04         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-14 18:53           ` jamal
2010-04-14 19:44             ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-14 19:58               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-15  8:51                 ` David Miller
2010-04-14 20:22               ` jamal
2010-04-14 20:27                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-14 20:38                   ` jamal
2010-04-14 20:45                   ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-14 20:57                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-14 22:51                       ` Changli Gao
2010-04-14 23:02                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-15  2:40                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-15  2:50                             ` Changli Gao
2010-04-15  8:57                       ` David Miller
2010-04-15 12:10                       ` jamal
2010-04-15 12:32                         ` Changli Gao
2010-04-15 12:50                           ` jamal
2010-04-15 23:51                             ` Changli Gao
2010-04-15  8:51                 ` David Miller
2010-04-14 20:34               ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-15  8:50               ` David Miller
2010-04-15  8:48             ` David Miller
2010-04-15 11:55               ` jamal
2010-04-15 16:41                 ` Rick Jones
2010-04-15 20:16                   ` jamal
2010-04-15 20:25                     ` Rick Jones [this message]
2010-04-15 23:56                     ` Changli Gao
2010-04-16  5:18                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-16  6:02                         ` Changli Gao
2010-04-16  6:28                           ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-16  6:32                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-16 13:42                             ` jamal
2010-04-16  7:15                           ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-16 13:27                             ` jamal
2010-04-16 13:37                               ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-16 13:58                                 ` jamal
2010-04-16 13:21                         ` jamal
2010-04-16 13:34                           ` Changli Gao
2010-04-16 13:49                             ` jamal
2010-04-16 14:10                               ` Changli Gao
2010-04-16 14:43                                 ` jamal
2010-04-16 14:58                                   ` Changli Gao
2010-04-19 12:48                                     ` jamal
2010-04-17  7:35                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-17  8:43                             ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-17  9:23                               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-17 14:27                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-17 17:26                                   ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-17 14:17                               ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: remove time limit in process_backlog() Eric Dumazet
2010-04-18  9:36                                 ` David Miller
2010-04-17 17:31                             ` rps perfomance WAS(Re: rps: question jamal
2010-04-18  9:39                               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-18 11:34                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-19  2:09                                   ` jamal
2010-04-19  9:37                                   ` [RFC] rps: shortcut net_rps_action() Eric Dumazet
2010-04-19  9:48                                     ` Changli Gao
2010-04-19 12:14                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-19 12:28                                         ` Changli Gao
2010-04-19 13:27                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-19 14:22                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-19 15:07                                               ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] " Eric Dumazet
2010-04-19 16:02                                                 ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-19 20:21                                                 ` David Miller
2010-04-20  7:17                                                   ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] rps: cleanups Eric Dumazet
2010-04-20  8:18                                                     ` David Miller
2010-04-19 23:56                                                 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] rps: shortcut net_rps_action() Changli Gao
2010-04-20  0:32                                                   ` Changli Gao
2010-04-20  5:55                                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-20 12:02                                   ` rps perfomance WAS(Re: rps: question jamal
2010-04-20 13:13                                     ` Eric Dumazet
     [not found]                                       ` <1271853570.4032.21.camel@bigi>
2010-04-21 19:01                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-22  1:27                                           ` Changli Gao
2010-04-22 12:12                                           ` jamal
2010-04-25  2:31                                             ` Changli Gao
2010-04-26 11:35                                               ` jamal
2010-04-26 13:35                                                 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-21 21:53                                         ` Rick Jones
2010-04-16 15:57             ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-14 18:53       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-15  8:42       ` David Miller

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