On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Yeah, that would be "nice". A single IRQ thread plus the process > context(s) doing networking might perform well. > > Multiple IRQ threads (softirq and hardirq threads mixed) i'm not so > sure about - it's extra context-switching cost.
Sure, that was implied by the getting rid of softirqs ;-), on -rt we currently suffer this hardirq/softirq thread ping-pong, it sucks. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
