question about softirqs

[David Miller]

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:15:34 +1000

> David Miller writes:
> 
>> I fully expected us to be, at this point, talking about putting the
>> pending softirq check back into the trap return path :-/
> 
> Would that actually do any good, in the case where the system has
> decided that ksoftirqd is handling soft irqs at the moment?

Even if ksoftirqd is running, we check and run pending softirqs from
trap return.

Sure, I imagine we could re-enter this "ksoftirq blocked by highprio
thread" situation if we get flooded every single time over and over
again.