Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mark_H_Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Mark_H_Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >regarding this particular latency, could you try the attached patch
> >ontop of -Q5? It turns the ->poll() loop into separate, individually
> >preemptable iterations instead of one batch of processing. In theory
> >this should result in latency being lower regardless of the
> >netdev_max_backlog value.
> 
> First time - stopped during init script - when trying to start a network
> service (automount).

in theory the patch is more or less equivalent to setting
netdev_max_backlog to a value of 1 - could you try that setting too?
(with the patch unapplied.)

	Ingo
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