Re: What is "Fast task queue"? (Was: How to understand what `swi

On Monday, August 27, 2012 8:46:46 am Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Lev.
> You wrote 27 =D0=B0=D0=B2=D0=B3=D1=83=D1=81=D1=82=D0=B0 2012 =D0=B3., 6:1=
9:57:
>=20
>  I've found (with help of debug printing added to kernel), that "swi5"
> has only one handler "Fast task queue" (name is too long to be seen in
> `top' output, may be, rename it to "fast tqueue"?)
>=20
>  What "fast tasks" are performed via this queue? Under network load it
> is main consumer of CPU.

Certain NIC drivers perform much of their interrupt handling in that thread.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin
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