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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Gigabit Performance 2.4.19-preX - Excessive locks, calls, waits
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:16:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C832D66.6DC279E@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020304001223.A29448@vger.timpanogas.org>

"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
> 
> ...
>  34880 total                                      0.0202
>  28581 default_idle                             595.4375
>   1125 __rdtsc_delay                             35.1562
>   1094 eth_type_trans                             5.2596
>    657 skb_release_data                           4.5625
>    378 __make_request                             0.2596
>    335 alloc_skb_frame                            1.1020

Note how eth_type_trans is now the most expensive function.  This
is because it's the first place where the CPU touches the
just-arrived ethernet header.

It would be interesting to add a prefetch() to the driver at the
earliest possible time to get the header read underway.  Maybe
the IP header too?

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-04  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-04  7:12 Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-04  8:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-03-04 15:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 17:46   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-04 18:34     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 21:02       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-03-04 17:39 ` Martin Josefsson
2002-03-04 18:04   ` Jeff V. Merkey
     [not found] <20020304001223.A29448@vger.timpanogas.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-03-04  8:28 ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-04 17:41   ` Jeff V. Merkey

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