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

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Date:	Sat, 1 May 2010 13:00:00 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, 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

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 04:38:57PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

Yes.

It needs more work, please don't apply it yet, to handle the "long sleep" case.

Still curious if it fixes Eric's test case.

> 
> 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.

Good point.

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

Good question. I suspect it's actually useful for some cases, but just adding
sockets might confuse some users.

-Andi
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