interesting(?) data on network interrupt servicing

[Maxim Sobolev]

Scott Long wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:42:16AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
>>
>>> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:25:18PM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>>>> 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 ?
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> I haven't been paying close enough attention, have all of the calcru
>>> problems and other side effects been fixed from phk's work?
>>
>>
>> we should ask phk. As far as i remember the only "problem"
>> is/was that the sys/user times are computed as if the
>> cpu were running at its max speed. But this is in fact
>> a good thing because it is a more consistent measurement of
>> the cost of the CPU work, which decouples us from having
>> to take care of variable cpu speed.
>>
>> luigi
> 
> No, I'm talking about all of the resulting problems with processes
> generating calcru messages on the console.

I still see them here with ACPI-safe TC.

-Maxim