Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Joe Korty) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.18 scheduler bugs | | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:26:59 -0500 (EST) |
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>> - ksoftirqd() - change daemon nice(2) value from 19 to -19. >> >> SoftIRQ servicing was less important than the most lowly of batch >> tasks. This patch makes it more important than all but the realtime >> tasks. > > Bad idea - the right fix to this is to stop using ksoftirqd so readily > under load. If it bales after 20 iterations life is good. As shipped life > is bad. > > Once ksoftirq triggers its because we are seriously overloaded (or without > fixing its use slightly randomly). In that case we want other stuff to > do work before we potentially unleash the next flood.
That certainly makes sense. Thanks. Joe - 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/
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