ksoftirqd_CPUX kernel daemons...

Ashok Raj (ashokr2@attbi.com)
Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:24:43 -0800


Hi

Could someone explain me why the kernel daemons (ksoftirqd that exists one
per CPU and each kernel thread has affinity to a single CPU) run with very
low priority?

mdrecovery etc run at very high priority (nice -20) but these softirq
daemons that run all the tasklet processing run as very low priority
threads.

is there a specific reason for this?

thanks
ashokr

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