Name

ksoftirqd — Softirq daemon

DESCRIPTION

ksoftirqd is a per-cpu kernel thread that runs when the machine is under heavy soft-interrupt load. Soft interrupts are normally serviced on return from a hard interrupt, but it's possible for soft interrupts to be triggered more quickly than they can be serviced. If a soft interrupt is triggered for a second time while soft interrupts are being handled, the ksoftirq daemon is triggered to handle the soft interrupts in process context. If ksoftirqd is taking more than a tiny percentage of CPU time, this indicates the machine is under heavy soft interrupt load.

HISTORY

ksoftirqd was introduced during the 2.3 development series as part of the softnet work by Alexey Kuznetsov and David Miller.


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