netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: increase receive packet quantum

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Message-Id: <20081104.144800.158229098.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:48:00 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: increase receive packet quantum

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:25:21 -0800

> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:24:28 -0800 (PST)
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'll apply this to net-next-2.6, thanks Stephen.
> 
> Maybe you want it as part of the tbench regression recovery in 2.6.28?
> it seems mostly harmless.

Maybe...

I'd rather have it cook in net-next-2.6 for a while.

Taking up more than a jiffie in softirq context is
bordering on anti-social and could cause problems
especially for RT'ish stuff.

And I'm pretty sure that's why I made the change.
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