Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 20:23:19 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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       mbligh@aracnet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: userspace irq balancer
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:22:49PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
>    Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 00:27:12 +0200
> 
>    I see your point, please try with 2.4.21rc4aa1 or with this patch:
>    
>    	http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.21rc4aa1/00_ksoftirqd-max-loop-networking-1
>    
>    you can put a printk in the ksoftirqd loop and tune the N until it
>    behaves as you want.
> 
> Ingo's specweb testing indicated that a value somewhere between 8 and
> 10 appear optimal.

Sounds very good.

> 
> I've pushed this change into Andrew's -mm 2.5.x patch set.

Thanks!

Andrea
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