From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
"peter k." <spam-goes-to-dev-null@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.7: wtf is "ksoftirqd_CPU0"
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:37:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01072201370202.02679@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000f01c111ff$73602ce0$c20e9c3e@host1> <3B59AFF7.8061645B@mandrakesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B59AFF7.8061645B@mandrakesoft.com>
On Saturday 21 July 2001 18:38, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> "peter k." wrote:
> > i just installed 2.4.7, now a new process called "ksoftirqd_CPU0"
> > is started automatically when booting (by the kernel obviously)?
> > why? what does it do? i didnt find any useful information on it in
> > linuxdoc / linux-kernel archives
>
> it is used internally, ignore it.
It's pretty hard to ignore a process with a name that ugly ;-)
How about just ksoft0 ? Or kirq0?
I don't see the sense of trying to encode a whole sentence into the
process name.
(Peter, this handles softirqs in a more predictable way by allowing the
scheduler to take care of any softirq that can't conveniently be
executed immediately. Among other benefits, this approach eliminated
the need to check for and execute pending softirqs on exit from system
calls.)
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-21 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-21 16:08 2.4.7: wtf is "ksoftirqd_CPU0" peter k.
2001-07-21 16:15 ` peter k.
2001-07-21 16:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-21 23:37 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-07-21 23:53 ` [OT] " Tom Rini
2001-07-22 10:24 ` Mike Black
2001-07-22 15:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-07-22 16:42 ` Horst von Brand
2001-07-23 14:14 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-22 0:23 ` Horst von Brand
2001-07-22 9:28 ` P.A.M. van Dam
[not found] <NOEJJDACGOHCKNCOGFOMCECBCKAA.davids@webmaster.com>
2001-07-21 16:29 ` peter k.
2001-07-21 16:36 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-07-21 17:15 ` Dave Jones
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