Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:57:34 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: queue_work from interrupt Real time preemption2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-03 |
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* Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > As I mentioned earlier, what would it take to be able to group > > softirq threads that should not preempt each other, but still keep > > preemption available for other threads? > > It would only take the creationt of multiple softIRQd threads per CPU. > Just keep net_rx and net_tx in the same work queue.
we could work around the net_rx/net_tx assumptions by moving them to the same softirq thread - but i'm a bit uneasy about the whole concept: e.g. how about SCSI softirq processing and timer softirq processing, can they preempt each other?
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