Andy Furniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > They will be the same as connexent haven't touched the drivers for > years, Patrick ported them to 2.6 and a diff doesn't show any difference > involving HZ that I can see.
You are comparing two completely different ->systems<-. Please stop being focused on HZ, ok ? HZ does not rule the priority of the in-kernel tasks. [...] > I suppose there could be something in the binary that says if HZ <1000 > use it if not use 100 but I could test that - remember running 500 on > 2.4 "fixed" things. >From your previous description, it seemed that 2.4 was always fine. Did I miss something ? > I still don't know how the driver would "know" the difference between > local and forwarded traffic? You have lost me there. What does "local" mean ? If it's LAN traffic, the adsl driver has no business with it. [...] > >That being said, it seems that the 2.6 version of the driver uses > >workqueues where 2.4 driver used native kernel threads. You can > >experiment with the priorities there. > > I'll have to google around that one - but I still secretly hope it's not > the driver anyway. Issue a ps command, raise/lower the priority of things like ksoftirqd and see if it makes a difference (on 2.6). -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
