Re: Process priority in 2.4.18 (RedHat 7.3)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 17 May 2002 15:57:15 +0100 (BST)

> > I didnt mention a flood of irqs. If stuff falls back to softirqd it
> > materially harms throughput
>
> You did implicitly becuse if there's not a flood of irq or recursive
> softirqs it cannot fall to sofitrqd.

Hardly takes a flood of IRQ's. A tiny burst of interrupts will happily
trigger it
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