On 08/27/2009 06:44 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Chris Friesen wrote: >> How would you deal with per-cpu kernel threads (softirqs, etc.) or >> softirq processing while in the kernel? > > If you have pinned an interrupt to that CPU then you need to process > the softirq for it as well. If that's the device your very single user > space thread is talking to then you better want that, if you are not > interested then simply pin that device irq to some other CPU: no irq > -> no softirq. Ah, okay. For some reason I had thought that the incoming work was queued up globally and might be handled by any softirq. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
