linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.1-rt1

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Message-ID: <1349802833.24256.25.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:13:53 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Carsten Emde <cbe@...dl.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.1-rt1

On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 18:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>  
> > I've started looking at playing with the NAPI code again, and trying to
> > see if I can add an ENAPI interface (Even Newer API), where the driver
> > uses its own interrupt thread, and instead of having the polling in the
> > network softirq, it can do the polling in its own thread.
> 
> It's pretty close to the behaviour I enforced with this change. Let's
> play with that and figure out what influence it has on the network
> throughput performance on RT. That needs probably a different
> scheduling scheme than what Carsten needs for his deterministic
> behaviour.
> 

I was actually looking at the change for mainline, not for -rt ;-)

-- Steve


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