Re: Process priority in 2.4.18 (RedHat 7.3)
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 17 May 2002 15:51:20 +0100 (BST)
> > For a 10Mbit ne2k it ought to be if its done with sched fifo. For serious
> > devices its not. The ksoftirqd bounce blows everything out of cache and is
> > easily measured
>
> if you're under a flood of irq ksoftirqd or not won't make differences
I didnt mention a flood of irqs. If stuff falls back to softirqd it
materially harms throughput
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