From e220d72bf0a09a8e58960b6737172a96af34b204 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:32:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Removing only section 9 page. --- man9/ksoftirqd.9 | 47 ----------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 47 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 man9/ksoftirqd.9 diff --git a/man9/ksoftirqd.9 b/man9/ksoftirqd.9 deleted file mode 100644 index 3d579d768..000000000 --- a/man9/ksoftirqd.9 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source. -.\" -.\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 2003 Matthew Wilcox -.\" -.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this -.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are -.\" preserved on all copies. -.\" -.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this -.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the -.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a -.\" permission notice identical to this one. -.\" -.\" Since the Linux kernel is constantly changing, this manual page may -.\" be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no responsibility -.\" for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the -.\" information contained herein. -.\" -.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by -.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. -.\" -.\" FIXME Probably we should drop this page, as it is -.\" the only one that we have in Section 9, and it -.\" is not being mainatained. -.\" -.TH KSOFTIRQD 9 2003-08-24 "Linux 2.6.0" "Linux Programmer's Manual" -.SH NAME -ksoftirqd \- Softirq daemon -.SH DESCRIPTION -.B 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 -.B ksoftirq -daemon is triggered to handle the soft interrupts in process context. -If -.B ksoftirqd -is taking more than a tiny percentage of CPU time, this indicates the -machine is under heavy soft interrupt load. -.SH HISTORY -.B ksoftirqd -was introduced during the 2.3 development series as part of the -softnet work by Alexey Kuznetsov and David Miller.