From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:22:06 +0300
> It steals timeslices from other processes to complete tcp_recvmsg() > task, and only when it does it for too long, it will be preempted. > Processing backlog queue on behalf of need_resched() will break > fairness too - processing itself can take a lot of time, so process > can be scheduled away in that part too. Yes, at this point I agree with this analysis. Currently I am therefore advocating some way to allow full input packet handling even amidst tcp_recvmsg() processing. - 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
