Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andi Kleen wrote: >> There was already talk some time ago to make NAPI drivers use >> the hardware mitigation again. The reason is when you have > > > This was discussed on the netdev list, and the conclusion was that you want > both > NAPI and hw mitigation. This was implemented in a few drivers, at least.
How does that deal with the latency that hw mitigation introduces. When you have a workload that bottle-necked waiting for that next packet and hw mitigation is turned on you can see some horrible unjustified slow downs. Eric - 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
