Re: Network performance degradation from 2.6.11.12 to 2.6.16.20

[Alan Cox]

Ar Llu, 2006-09-18 am 16:29 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
> The only delay this would add would be the queueing time from the NIC
> to the softirq. Do you really think that is that bad?

If you are trying to do things like network record/playback then you
want the minimal delay. There's a reason the original timestamp code
supported the hardware setting the timestamp itself - we actually had a
separare set of logic on a board that was doing the timestamping by
watching the IRQ line of the NIC chip.

Alan

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