Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267391AbUIAXRX (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:17:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268086AbUIAXOI (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:14:08 -0400 Received: from mail3.utc.com ([192.249.46.192]:32222 "EHLO mail3.utc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267851AbUIAUy3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:54:29 -0400 Message-ID: <413636D0.5080603@cybsft.com> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:53:36 -0500 From: "K.R. Foley" Organization: Cybersoft Solutions, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Thomas Charbonnel , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com, Lee Revell Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q7 References: <200408282210.03568.pnambic@unu.nu> <20040828203116.GA29686@elte.hu> <1093727453.8611.71.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040828211334.GA32009@elte.hu> <1093727817.860.1.camel@krustophenia.net> <1093737080.1385.2.camel@krustophenia.net> <1093746912.1312.4.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040829054339.GA16673@elte.hu> <20040830090608.GA25443@elte.hu> <20040901082958.GA22920@elte.hu> <20040901135122.GA18708@elte.hu> <1094058546.6465.2.camel@localhost> <1094069473.7477.2.camel@twins> In-Reply-To: <1094069473.7477.2.camel@twins> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 878 Lines: 31 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 19:09 +0200, Thomas Charbonnel wrote: > >>Ingo Molnar wrote : >> >>>i've released the -Q7 patch: >>> >>> http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q7 >> >>With Q7 I still get rx latency issues (> 130 us non-preemptible section >>from rtl8139_poll). Moreover network connections were extremely slow >>(almost hung) until I set /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_backlog_granularity >>to 2. >> >>Thomas >> > > > Me too! > I too have a rtl8139 network card. > > kr, what kind of nic do you have since this does not occur on your > machine? > Ethernet Pro 100. - 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/