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Example of syscall that trig a soft irq.

Example of syscall that trig a soft irq.

Posted Nov 2, 2012 9:11 UTC (Fri) by polch (guest, #87593)
Parent article: Software interrupts and realtime

"Now, when a thread raises a softirq, the specific interrupt in question (network receive processing, say) is remembered by the kernel"

Could you provide an example of syscll that trig a softirq ? For the network, for instance, i suppose that only calls that provide data to the kernel trig a soft irq (send, write, etc) ? But, i hardly imagine what kind of notification can trig a receive processing.

Regards.


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