linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] delayed wakeup list

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Date:	Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:56:20 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] delayed wakeup list

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 15:51 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 à 15:30 +0200, Peter Zijlstra a écrit :
> > This patch-set provides the infrastructure to delay/batch task wakeups.

> > Alternatively it can be used to avoid issuing multiple wakeups, and
> > thus save a few cycles, in packet processing. Queue all target tasks
> > and wakeup once you've processed all packets. That way you avoid
> > waking the target task multiple times if there were multiple packets
> > for the same task.
> > 
> > No actual such usage yet, but ISTR talking to some net folks a long while back
> > about this, is there still interest, Dave, Eric?
> > 
> 
> Yes, I remember playing with such idea some years ago, to speedup
> multicast processing.
> 
> Say you have 10 receivers on a multicast group, each incoming message
> actually wakeups 10 threads.
> 
> If we receive a burst of 10 messages, we spend a lot of time in
> scheduler.
> 
> So adding one queue to batch all scheduler works (and factorize some
> work if the same thread is queued), and perform the scheduler calls at
> the end of software IRQ for example was a win.

Awesome, so my memory didn't trick me ;-) Patches 1 and 2 should be
stable, its just 3 that's a bit troublesome. So if you have the
bandwidth you could try this.
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