Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q7

From: K.R. Foley
Date: Wed Sep 01 2004 - 18:26:51 EST


Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 19:09 +0200, Thomas Charbonnel wrote:

Ingo Molnar wrote :

i've released the -Q7 patch:

http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q7

With Q7 I still get rx latency issues (> 130 us non-preemptible section
from rtl8139_poll). Moreover network connections were extremely slow
(almost hung) until I set /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_backlog_granularity
to 2.

Thomas



Me too!
I too have a rtl8139 network card.

kr, what kind of nic do you have since this does not occur on your
machine?


Ethernet Pro 100.
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