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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:39:02 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Process priority in 2.4.18 (RedHat 7.3)
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On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:49:21PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> I think its mostly #2. We invoke ksoftirq far far too easily.

ksoftirqd + SCHED_FIFO is like no ksoftirqd at all, provided the ne card
is irq driven (it is) everything works like it was working in 2.4.0.

Andrea