Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:24:27 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: Softirq priority inversion from "softirq: reduce latencies" | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:14:36 +0100 (CET)
> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Peter Hurley wrote: >> Or flipping your argument on its head, why not just _always_ execute >> softirq in ksoftirqd? > > Which is what that change effectivley does. And that makes a lot of sense, > because you get the softirq load under scheduler control and do not let the > softirq run as a context stealing entity which is completely uncontrollable by > the scheduler.
+1
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