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Re: Interrupt, interrupt threads, continuations, and kernel lwps

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Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 10:14 pm

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:57:41PM -0800, jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu wrote:

Your modest 50,000 packets/sec would presumably be on hardware that
can do interrupt coalescing, right?  Even if your outline is correct,
I would hope that you're handling more than a single packet in each
interrupt / context switch, which should reduce the number of
context switches somewhat.

-allen

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