From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 17:57:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 17:57:58 -0400 Received: from [195.223.140.120] ([195.223.140.120]:34672 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 17:57:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 23:57:44 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Andrew Morton Cc: Paul Faure , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Process priority in 2.4.18 (RedHat 7.3) Message-ID: <20020516215744.GI1025@dualathlon.random> In-Reply-To: <3CE414BF.15A0C74B@zip.com.au> <3CE41F42.ED20D0C6@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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