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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 16:53:46 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: "peter k." <spam-goes-to-dev-null@gmx.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [OT] Re: 2.4.7: wtf is "ksoftirqd_CPU0"
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:37:02AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Saturday 21 July 2001 18:38, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > "peter k." wrote:
> > > i just installed 2.4.7, now a new process called "ksoftirqd_CPU0"
> > > is started automatically when booting (by the kernel obviously)?
> > > why? what does it do? i didnt find any useful information on it in
> > > linuxdoc / linux-kernel archives
> >
> > it is used internally, ignore it.
> 
> It's pretty hard to ignore a process with a name that ugly ;-)
> 
> How about just ksoft0 ?  Or kirq0?

Now this is just getting silly.  It follows the same convention the
6-8 other k* daemons follow.  Would you want kswpd? kupd? kreclmd?  Probably
not.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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