Re: [patch] softirq performance fixes, cleanups, 2.4.10.

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:39:08 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> unless you have strong arguments against this approach, i will start
> coding this. It's a pretty intrusive change, because all current softirq
> users will have to agree on a generic event format + callback that can be
> queued. This has to be embedded into skbs and bh-handling structs. What do
> you think?

Why skbs?

Anyway, scheme sort of:

do_softirq()
{
start = jiffies;

while (dequeue()) {
if (jiffies - start > 1)
goto wakeup_ksoftirq
process();
}
}

and raise_softirq() enqueuing event to tail, if it is still not queued
is nice, not intrusive and very easy.

Only "skbs" scares me. :-)

Alexey
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