Re: Process priority in 2.4.18 (RedHat 7.3)

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Thu, 16 May 2002 23:57:44 +0200


On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:06:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> of transmit attempts and is relying on ksoftirqd to transmit.

ksoftirqd or not the softirq are guaranteed to keep running even if
there's a task in loop with SCHED_FIFO, ksoftirqd only enhance/polish
the case of a recursive softirq, or a very big flood of softirq events,
it is not required to run softirqs.

Andrea
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