--- Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:10 -0700, Danial Thom > wrote: > > > > None of this is helpful, but since no one has > > been able to tell me how to tune it to > provide > > absolute priority to the network stack I'll > > assume it can't be done. > > History has proven that camp wrong almost 100% > of the time. > > You were told to turn off kernel preemption. > > A diligent comparison requires that, since 2.4 > does not support kernel > preemption, and a fair comparison requires > holding all other things > constant. > > In addition, there were several IP-level > features mentioned in emails, > that have been added to 2.6. > > You need to make sure those are all off by > default, to keep your > comparison relevant. > > All the answers are before you, review those > emails, turn all that stuff > off and retest. I had tried turning off pre-emption, with little difference. However linux had the same properties before there was such a setting (of liking to drop packets here and there for no apparent reason under heavy load), so I didn't expect it to make a huge difference. It seems typing on the keyboard has the same effect with or without pre-emption enabled. IP is not involved in this test, so no IP stack issues should be relevent. Danial __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/