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Subject: Re: interesting(?) data on network interrupt servicing
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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:25:18PM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:15:55AM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:29:06PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>>>
>>>>Paolo should follow up in the next days with graphs and more data.
>>>
>>>Here are graphs and data:
>>>
>>>http://mercurio.sm.dsi.unimi.it/~pisati/
>>>
>>>and here is a tarball with all images, data and patches:
>>>
>>>http://mercurio.sm.dsi.unimi.it/~pisati/interrupt.tgz
>>
>>ok, i updated my CURRENT and rerun the tests (and while here 
>>i disabled SMP):
>>
>>phk's optimization to cpu ticks calculation shaved 4k ticks,
> 
> 
> this makes it a very good candidate for MFC when 6.1 is out ?
> 
> 
>>but interrupt masking overhead it's still there.
> 
> 
> and this needs a bit of investigation instead...
> 

I haven't been paying close enough attention, have all of the calcru
problems and other side effects been fixed from phk's work?

Scott