From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261429AbVDUH0z (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:26:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261425AbVDUH0z (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:26:55 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:30648 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261429AbVDUH0p (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:26:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:26:24 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: yangyi Cc: "Rt-Dev@Mvista. Com" , LKML Subject: Re: [ Patch ]: Fix loopback communication latency bug Message-ID: <20050421072624.GA808@elte.hu> References: <1113897790.4632.161.camel@montavista2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1113897790.4632.161.camel@montavista2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * yangyi wrote: > Hi, Ingo > > For the option PREEMPT_RT, local communication latency is very very > big, it is about 30 to 50 times as big as the option PREEMPT_NONE as > far as local ping latency is concerned. Obviously, this should be > fixed ASAP. > > This patch fixes this bug by changing netif_rx to netif_rx_ni in > loopback device driver. thanks, applied. Ingo