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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:46:05 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue]
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 128 kernel threads sitting around waiting for a problem that
> > rarely happens seems a little.. strange. (for want of a better word).
> 
> I've kinda lost the plot on ksoftirqd.  Never really understood
> why a thread was needed for this, nor why it runs at nice +20.
> But things seem to be working now.

Me no idea either.  It wasn't to work around the problem of losing
softirqs on syscall return was it?  Because there was a patch for that
in the low-latency set that fixed that without a thread, and without a
delay...

-- Jamie
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