On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com> > Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 20:32:48 -0400 (EDT) > > Lastly from the software side Linux doesn't seem to have anything like > BSD's parameter to control user/system CPU sharing. Once my CPU load > reaches 70-80%, I'd rather have some dropped packets than let the CPU hit > 100% and end up with my BGP sessions drop. > > When packet (more specifically, software interrupt) processing > reaches a certain level, we offload the work into process context. That sounds good. Is there a sysctl I can use to define "certain level"? -Ralph - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
