Hi Kim... On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:18, J.Hwan Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > everyonehttp://forum.detik.com/mundur-ini-dia-isi-surat-resign-steve-jobs-t287069.html > > When network card interrupts occur in multi-core system, > what core is used by soft irq for network interrupts? > That is, for example, if the IRQ happens in core 0, > does the soft irq run on the same core ?
quite likely yes. This come from my understanding that IRQ processing sometimes use per core data structure, thus to maximize locality, using the same core would be the best choice. > Is it possible for soft irq to use other core different from hard IRQ? theoritically yes, especially when it falls to be executed by ksoftirqd. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
