On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:52:46AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > this, if enabled, causes all softirqs to be processed within ksoftirqd, > and it also breaks out of the softirq loop if preemption of ksoftirqd > has been triggered by a higher-prio task.
You'll still have the latency of finishing the currently executing softirq, which often includes a loop itself (whose break condition is based on not hogging the CPU, rather than letting higher priority tasks in as soon as possible). -Scott
