What is "Fast task queue"? (Was: How to understand what `swi5' kernel thread does?)

[Lev Serebryakov]

Hello, John.
You wrote 27 августа 2012 г., 20:26:03:

>>  What "fast tasks" are performed via this queue? Under network load it
>> is main consumer of CPU.
JB> Certain NIC drivers perform much of their interrupt handling in that thread.
  Yep,  I've found, that my if_vr uses it. One more question: does ipfw
 rules works in same thread? I have ``net.isr.dispatch="direct"'' set.


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