interesting(?) data on network interrupt servicing

[Scott Long]

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