> Just to be clear, in the previous email I posted on this thread, I
quoted text
> described a worst-case network ping-pong test case (send a packet, wait
> for reply), and found out that a deffered interrupt scheme just damaged
> the performance of the test case.  Since the folks who came up with the
> test case were adamant, I turned off the defferred interrupts.  
> While defferred interrupts are an "obvious" solution, I decided that 
> they weren't a good solution. (And I have no other solution to offer).

Sounds exactly like the default netperf TCP_RR test and any number of other 
benchmarks.  The "send  a request, wait for reply, send next request, etc etc 
etc" is a rather common application behaviour afterall.

rick jones
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