netdev - Re: [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt

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Date:	Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:38:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ak@...goyle.fritz.box
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, andi@...stfloor.org, hadi@...erus.ca,
	xiaosuo@...il.com, therbert@...gle.com, shemminger@...tta.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lenb@...nel.org, arjan@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet
 input_pkt_queue

From: Andi Kleen <ak@...goyle.fritz.box>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:41:44 +0200

>     Use io_schedule() in network stack to tell cpuidle governour to guarantee lower latencies
> 
>     XXX: probably too aggressive, some of these sleeps are not under high load.
> 
>     Based on a bug report from Eric Dumazet.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

I like this, except that we probably don't want the delayacct_blkio_*() calls
these things do.

Probably the rest of what these things do should remain in the io_schedule*()
functions and the block layer can call it's own versions which add in the
delayacct_blkio_*() bits.

Or, if the delacct stuff is useful for socket I/O too, then it's interfaces
names should have the "blk" stripped from them :-)
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