question about softirqs

Andi Kleen andi at firstfloor.org
Thu May 14 05:13:54 EST 2009


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:04:09PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 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.

In this case the next interrupt will also process them. It will just
go more slowly because interrupts limit the work compared to ksoftirqd.

-Andi

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