netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: less interrupt masking in NAPI

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Message-ID: <1417607546.5303.133.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:52:26 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: less interrupt masking in NAPI

On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 17:26 +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:

> Before this patch, when a large network flow arrives, some other processes
> response slowly or even don't response because the cpu is dealing with softirq.
> 
> After this patch, under pressure, much more softirq is doing in ksoftirqd. The other
> processes be scheduled.
> 
> My system has dual core.

Which NIC driver are you using ?

Thanks


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