Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:32:13 -0400 | Subject | Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch | From | Scott Wood <> |
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:52:46AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > this, if enabled, causes all softirqs to be processed within ksoftirqd, > and it also breaks out of the softirq loop if preemption of ksoftirqd > has been triggered by a higher-prio task.
You'll still have the latency of finishing the currently executing softirq, which often includes a loop itself (whose break condition is based on not hogging the CPU, rather than letting higher priority tasks in as soon as possible).
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