Re: kernel performance update - 2.6.14-rc3

"Chen, Kenneth W" [off-list ref] writes:

Even though
softirq is invoked at the end of dev_queue_xmit() via local_bh_enable(),
not all execution of softirq will result a __wake_up().  With higher
HZ rate, timer interrupt is more frequent and thus more softirq
invocation and leads to more __wake_up(), which then takes us to higher
throughput because cpu spend less time in idle.  

This sounds like a serious bug somewhere if true.

-Andi