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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:18:51 -0400
From: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Subject: Re: posible latency issues in seq_read
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On 7/20/07, Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
>
> We've run into an issue (on 2.6.10) where calling "lsof" triggers lost
> packets on our server.  Preempt is disabled, and NAPI is enabled.
>

Can you reproduce with a recent kernel?  Lots of latency issues have
been fixed since then.

Lee