Re: Route cache performance under stress
From: David S. Miller <hidden>
Date: 2003-06-10 15:49:40
From: Ralph Doncaster [off-list ref] 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.