Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P8

From: K.R. Foley
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 08:50:08 EST


Lee Revell wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 01:41, Ingo Molnar wrote:

* Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


- reduce netdev_max_backlog to 8 (Mark H Johnson)

On my system this setting has absolutely no effect on the skb related
latencies. [...]

it has an effect on input queue length. Output queue lengths can be
reduced via 'ifconfig eth0 txqueuelen 8'.



OK. With both of these set to 4, the largest latency I was able to
generate by ping flooding was 253 usecs.


Even with both of these set to 4, I still get similar results ~647 usec :(

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