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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 04:18:24 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: multiple threads for interrupts
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Seigo Tanimura wrote:
> One solution is to run multiple threads for each of the interrupt
> types.  Since I noticed this issue first during my work of network
> locking, I have been tweaking the swi subsystem so that it runs
> multiple threads for an swi type.  For those who are interested, the
> patch can be found at:
> 
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tanimura/patches/swipool.diff.gz

Benchmarks before and after, demonstrating an improvement?

-- Terry

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