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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:56:59 -0400 From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com> To: Raghuram Kothakota <Raghuram.Kothakota@...cle.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] sunvnet: Re-check for a VIO_DESC_READY data descriptor after short udelay() On (09/02/14 09:43), Raghuram Kothakota wrote: > We could optimize this a bit by not wait for normal traffic, I mean, > non-burst traffic > and apply the retry only when we detect a stream of packets? How could you tell the difference efficiently? You'd need to track some kind of history/state for inter-packet arrival time. All seems like over-kill (more useful to go and optimize other parts of the system, such as do less work in interrupt context). > We could detect a stream based on how many packets are picked > up in this function, picking up 3 or more could be considered as a stream, > of course tune based on testing. > > You probably tried it already, but checking to see if you tried with > less number > of iterations, we could reduce the iterations if the numbers are equally good > with less iterations. yes, the 3 * 4 micro-seconds was arrived at heuristically. --Sowmini -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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