Re: [PATCH] Bound TSO defer time (resend)

2006-10-18 Thread David Miller
From: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:22:11 -0400 > That's actually how I originally coded it. :) But then it occurred to > me that if you've already been waiting for a full clock tick, the > marginal CPU savings of waiting longer will not be great. Which is why > I

Re: [PATCH] Bound TSO defer time (resend)

2006-10-18 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:37:36 +0200 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 October 2006 06:18, John Heffner wrote: > > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:53:20 -0400 (EDT) > > > John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> This patch limits the amount of tim

Re: [PATCH] Bound TSO defer time (resend)

2006-10-18 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 06:18, John Heffner wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:53:20 -0400 (EDT) > > John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This patch limits the amount of time you will defer sending a TSO segment > >> to less than two clock ticks, or the time

Re: [PATCH] Bound TSO defer time (resend)

2006-10-17 Thread John Heffner
David Miller wrote: From: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:18:33 -0400 Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:53:20 -0400 (EDT) John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This patch limits the amount of time you will defer sending a TSO segment to less than two

Re: [PATCH] Bound TSO defer time (resend)

2006-10-16 Thread David Miller
From: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:18:33 -0400 > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:53:20 -0400 (EDT) > > John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This patch limits the amount of time you will defer sending a TSO segment > >> to less than two c

Re: [PATCH] Bound TSO defer time (resend)

2006-10-16 Thread John Heffner
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:53:20 -0400 (EDT) John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This patch limits the amount of time you will defer sending a TSO segment to less than two clock ticks, or the time between two acks, whichever is longer. Okay, but doing any timing on

Re: [PATCH] Bound TSO defer time (resend)

2006-10-16 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:53:20 -0400 (EDT) John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The original message didn't show up on the list. I'm assuming it's > because the filters didn't like the attached postscript. I posted PDFs of > the figures on the web: > > http://www.psc.edu/~jheffner/tmp/a.pdf

[PATCH] Bound TSO defer time (resend)

2006-10-16 Thread John Heffner
The original message didn't show up on the list. I'm assuming it's because the filters didn't like the attached postscript. I posted PDFs of the figures on the web: http://www.psc.edu/~jheffner/tmp/a.pdf http://www.psc.edu/~jheffner/tmp/b.pdf http://www.psc.edu/~jheffner/tmp/c.pdf -John ---