Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue]

Jamie Lokier
2001-12-04T16:50:54Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 128 kernel threads sitting around waiting for a problem that
> > rarely happens seems a little.. strange. (for want of a better word).
>
> I've kinda lost the plot on ksoftirqd. Never really understood
> why a thread was needed for this, nor why it runs at nice +20.
> But things seem to be working now.

Me no idea either. It wasn't to work around the problem of losing
softirqs on syscall return was it? Because there was a patch for that
in the low-latency set that fixed that without a thread, and without a
delay...

-- Jamie