Re: [PATCH] [IMPORTANT] Re: 2.4.7 softirq incorrectness.
Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:56:47 +0200
In article <Pine.LNX.4.05.10107301529300.11108-100000@cosmic.nrg.org> you wrote:
> I'd like to see all the various execution contexts of Linux (irqs,
> softirqs, tasklets, kernel daemons) all become (real-time where
> necessary) kernel threads like ksoftirqd, scheduled with the appropriate
> scheduling class and priority. The resulting kernel code would be much
> simpler and more maintainable; and it would make it possible to change
> the scheduling priority of the threads to optimize for different
> application loads.
That's how solaris does it, btw. From time to time sun seems to get
something right ;)
Christoph
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