From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: rps perfomance WAS(Re: rps: question Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:16:21 -0400 Message-ID: <1271362581.23780.12.camel@bigi> References: <1271268242.16881.1719.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1271271222.4567.51.camel@bigi> <20100415.014857.168270765.davem@davemloft.net> <1271332528.4567.150.camel@bigi> <4BC741AE.3000108@hp.com> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , eric.dumazet@gmail.com, therbert@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, robert@herjulf.net, xiaosuo@gmail.com, andi@firstfloor.org To: Rick Jones Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f189.google.com ([209.85.221.189]:42627 "EHLO mail-qy0-f189.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755339Ab0DOUQ1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:16:27 -0400 Received: by qyk27 with SMTP id 27so2141229qyk.23 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:16:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BC741AE.3000108@hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 09:41 -0700, Rick Jones wrote: > IPS (~= RPS) was running on shared FSB HP9000's. Now, that was also a BSD > networking stack with netisrq's and the like. TOPS (~= RFS) was also run on > shared FSB HP9000s, as well as CC-NUMA HP9000s and Integrity systems. TOPS was > implemented in a Streams-based stack tracing its history to a common ancestor > with Solaris (Mentat). Sounds interesting. Wikipedia information overload. Any arch description of the HP9000? Did your scheme use IPIs to message the other CPUs? cheers, jamal