What is ksoftirqd 3

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Question feed. Server Fault works best with JavaScript enabled. When an interrupt comes from a device, the operating system pauses what it was doing and starts addressing that interrupt. In some situations IRQs come very very fast one after the other and the operating system cannot finish servicing one before another one arrives.

This can happen when a high speed network card receives a very large number of packets in a short time frame. Because the operating system cannot handle IRQs as they arrive because they arrive too fast one after the other , the operating system queues them for later processing by a special internal process named ksoftirqd.

Lucian Adrian Grijincu Lucian Adrian Grijincu 6, 2 2 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Eduardo Bezerra Eduardo Bezerra 6 6 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. I know it's askubuntu. As I understand it ksoftirqd processes postponed softirqs when they cannot be processed quickly enough. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.

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