On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Christian Meier <chmeie@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/articles/r/t/_/RT_PREEMPT_HOWTO_6bc9.html I > noticed that there are different softirq kthreads for every softirq. So they > could be prioritized differently. > In my rt-patched kernels 3.2.11-rt20 and 3.0.24-rt42 I can only see one > ksoftirqd instance per cpu. > > I did not find any hints in kernel/softirq.c where each of those kthreads is > generated. I only see ksoftirqd. > > From RT_PREEMPT_HOWTO_6bc9.html: > ... > 2 ? S 0:00 [softirq-high/0] > 3 ? S 0:00 [softirq-timer/0] > 4 ? S 0:00 [softirq-net-tx/] > 5 ? S 0:00 [softirq-net-rx/] > 6 ? S 0:00 [softirq-block/0] > 7 ? S 0:00 [softirq-tasklet] > 8 ? S 0:00 [softirq-hrtreal] > 9 ? S 0:00 [softirq-hrtmono] > ... > You can read the section on Software interrupts here too to learn a bit about the change. https://lwn.net/Articles/464180/ Thanks -- 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
