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Danial Thom wrote:
> None of this is helpful, but since no one has
> been able to tell me how to tune it to provide
> absolute priority to the network stack I'll
> assume it can't be done.

The network stack already has priority over user processes,
except when executed in process context, so preemption has
no direct impact on briding or routing performance.

The reason why noone answered your question is because you
don't ask but claim or assume.