question about softirqs

[Chris Friesen]

Andi Kleen wrote:

> network packets are normally processed by the network packet interrupt's
> softirq or alternatively in the NAPI poll loop.

If we have a high priority task, ksoftirqd may not get a chance to run.

My point is simply that the documentation says that softirqs are
processed on return from a syscall, and this is not necessarily the case.

Chris