Re: [LIP] SoftIRQ's

Arun Sharma <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
suresh kumar wrote:

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

Multithreading the network stack. This is why Linux lost to windows on Mindcraft bechmarks.

http://www.stillhq.com/extracted/phd/references/wilcox-ill_do_it_later.pdf

	-Arun



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