Re: loaded router, excessive getnstimeofday in oprofile

[Rick Jones]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:49:10AM -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
>
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > > > Those banks really want to crank down on latency - to the point they 
> > > > start disabling interrupt coalescing.  I bet they'd toss anything out 
> > > > they could to shave another microsecond.
> > >
> > >
> > > This change would actually likely lower their latency.
> >
> > I'm guessing you mean increase their latency?  I agree, it could - 
> > depends entirely on the PPS in production I suspect.
>
>
> No, moving the time stamps into the socket decreases latency
> for all packets that don't need time stamps. And they likely 
> have some packets which don't need time stamps too.

Ah, since that part of the discussion wasn't in the quoted text I 
assumed you were talking about the disabling of interrupt coalescing.

rick jones

> As a secondary effect if they use a RT kernel it might
> be also beneficial to do the (depending on the platform)
> costly time stamp in the lower priority socket context
> than in the high priority interrupt thread.
>
> -Andi

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