Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NAPI and tg3 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 06 Jan 2003 17:58:00 +0000 |
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> Ok I can try that, but what about the nice level of ksoftirqd ? Any > specific reason for it beeing 19 (lowest priority) and not 0 (equally to > most other processes in the system) ?
Its triggered (in theory but not practice) only when we are overloaded, in which case we want to do other *useful* work first rather than using all the cpu to process requests we can't fulfill
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