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net: increase receive packet quantum 

This patch gets about 1.25% back on tbench regression.

My change to NAPI for multiqueue support changed the time limit on
network receive processing.  Under sustained loads like tbench, this
can cause the receiver to reschedule prematurely. 

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger 2008-11-03 17:14:38 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent b9ac99855d
commit 24f8b2385e
1 changed files with 4 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -2373,7 +2373,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__napi_schedule);
static void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
{
struct list_head *list = &__get_cpu_var(softnet_data).poll_list;
unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
unsigned long time_limit = jiffies + 2;
int budget = netdev_budget;
void *have;
@ -2384,13 +2384,10 @@ static void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
int work, weight;
/* If softirq window is exhuasted then punt.
*
* Note that this is a slight policy change from the
* previous NAPI code, which would allow up to 2
* jiffies to pass before breaking out. The test
* used to be "jiffies - start_time > 1".
* Allow this to run for 2 jiffies since which will allow
* an average latency of 1.5/HZ.
*/
if (unlikely(budget <= 0 || jiffies != start_time))
if (unlikely(budget <= 0 || time_after(jiffies, time_limit)))
goto softnet_break;
local_irq_enable();