Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH V2] New Xen netback implementation

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 15:21 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:07:16PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 19:22 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > 
> > >  - This patch set solves the CPU banding problem I've seen with the
> > >    older netback. The older one  I could see X netback threads eating
> > > 80%
> > >    of CPU. With this one, the number is down to 13-14%. 
> > 
> > "CPU banding problem"?
> > 
> > If you had X threads using 80% before do you now see Y threads using
> > 13-14% where Y is bigger or smaller than X? Is 80*X ~= 13*Y?
> 
> Yes. ~=. The count looked to be the same.

Great, that's as expected, the same work is more fairly distributed -- I
thought you might be suggesting the total had gone down from
X*80%->X*13% which is not what I thought this series would be doing!

Ian.


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