Re: voluntary-preempt I0: sluggish feel

[Ingo Molnar]

* Rudo Thomas <rudo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would like to ask whether I should do this. Or is it just the other
> way round - renicing the ksoftirqd thread "kills" the effect of
> deferred processing?

it is perfectly fine to renice ksoftirqd. Are you running xmms under RT
priority? If yes then it will always preempt ksoftirqd.

	Ingo
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