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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Paul Faure <paul@engsoc.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Process priority in 2.4.18 (RedHat 7.3)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 23:57:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020516215744.GI1025@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CE414BF.15A0C74B@zip.com.au> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205161650170.18851-100000@lager.engsoc.carleton.ca> <3CE41F42.ED20D0C6@zip.com.au>

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:06:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> of transmit attempts and is relying on ksoftirqd to transmit.

ksoftirqd or not the softirq are guaranteed to keep running even if
there's a task in loop with SCHED_FIFO, ksoftirqd only enhance/polish
the case of a recursive softirq, or a very big flood of softirq events,
it is not required to run softirqs.

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-16 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3CE414BF.15A0C74B@zip.com.au>
2002-05-16 20:51 ` Process priority in 2.4.18 (RedHat 7.3) Paul Faure
2002-05-16 21:06   ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-16 21:57     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2002-05-17  0:40       ` Paul Faure
2002-05-17  2:21         ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-17 12:49           ` Alan Cox
2002-05-17 12:39             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-17 13:01               ` Alan Cox
2002-05-17 12:55                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-17 14:51                   ` Alan Cox
2002-05-17 14:35                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-17 14:57                       ` Alan Cox
2002-05-17 15:17                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-17 17:17                           ` Alan Cox
2002-05-18 16:19                             ` Paul Faure
2002-05-18 16:21                             ` Paul Faure
2002-05-17 16:21             ` Paul Faure
2002-05-16 20:08 Paul Faure
2002-05-16 20:13 ` Nerijus Baliunas

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