From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752153AbWFWWsY (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:48:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752154AbWFWWsY (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:48:24 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.21]:133 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752153AbWFWWsY (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:48:24 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14349625 Subject: Re: Measuring tools - top and interrupts From: Mike Galbraith To: danial_thom@yahoo.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060623201454.68199.qmail@web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060623201454.68199.qmail@web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:51:59 +0200 Message-Id: <1151103119.11935.74.camel@Homer.TheSimpsons.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 13:14 -0700, Danial Thom wrote: > > Thats a pretty crappy controller you have in with > that shiny P4... Shrug. It's a grocery store desktop box, and I'm quite happy with it, but that has roughly zip to do with the price of tea in China. > I'm not sure that they want the tools to work. > They'll just call you a troll and go on > developing unnecessary things like NAPI because > they're still using controllers designed by DEC > (remember them?) back in the stone ages. > > Yet I regularly encounter people using cheap NICs > with expensive cpus on network-intensive > applications. But you'd think one or two people > would have a clue. As does that. -Mike