Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:23:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:23:24 -0500 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:52235 "HELO postfix.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:23:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:35:15 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: J Sloan Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: How to optimize routing performance In-Reply-To: <3AB1153F.802BEBA9@toyota.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: > > > > > http://lse.sourceforge.net/scheduling/ > > > > Unrelated. Fun, but unrelated to networking... > > Fun, yes, and perhaps not directly related, however > under high load, where the sheer numbet of interrupts > per second begins to overwhelm the kernel, might it > not be relevant? No. > Or are you saying that the bottleneck is somewhere > else completely, Indeed. The bottleneck is with processing the incoming network packets, at the interrupt level. Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/