Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 06:24:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 06:24:11 -0400 Received: from smtp-server2.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.1.39]:55207 "EHLO smtp-server2.tampabay.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 06:24:02 -0400 Message-ID: <009601c11298$70a3da80$b6562341@cfl.rr.com> From: "Mike Black" To: In-Reply-To: <000f01c111ff$73602ce0$c20e9c3e@host1> <3B59AFF7.8061645B@mandrakesoft.com> <01072201370202.02679@starship> <20010721165346.U3889@opus.bloom.county> Subject: Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.7: wtf is "ksoftirqd_CPU0" Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 06:24:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing Actually -- is it possible (or desirable) to make ALL kernel daemons begin with say "_" or some other special character to distinguish them from userland threads? The "k......d" paradigm is OK but not very distinctive. That way you have a simple line in the kernel docs that says "Any process with a leading _ is a kernel process and should NEVER be killed or otherwise messed with except as noted elsewhere in the docs". Also would make it easy for things like ps, top and other process-aware things to have a really simple "show kernel processes only" option. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Rini" To: "Daniel Phillips" Cc: "peter k." ; Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 7:53 PM Subject: [OT] Re: 2.4.7: wtf is "ksoftirqd_CPU0" > 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. > > -- > Tom Rini (TR1265) > http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/