Re: [LIP] SoftIRQ's

suresh kumar said:
> Hi,
> In the softIRQ documentation, it was given that it(softIRQ)
> can run on two system simultanesouly on two CPU's, and this
> is where tasklet differs from the softIRQ.
> how can a softIRQ run simultanesouly on more than one cpu?

   Why not?  Each CPU executes some piece of code, why not both be softIRQs?

> in the real world where is this requirement that can
> come up? Is there ne thing wrong with my understanding?

  Any performance critical code (like networking) will use softIRQs
instead of tasklets.

> thanks
> Suresh
>
>
>
> V.V Suresh Kumar
>
>
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