From ae142c06053de1db429e673dab78f1ae4a19c0fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:14:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] NSH: The default priority of the network initialization
 thread should be lower.  It is CPU intensive and can interfere with other
 operations

---
 nshlib/Kconfig | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nshlib/Kconfig b/nshlib/Kconfig
index f1427687c..429953fcc 100644
--- a/nshlib/Kconfig
+++ b/nshlib/Kconfig
@@ -873,7 +873,11 @@ config NSH_NETINIT_THREAD_STACKSIZE
 
 config NSH_NETINIT_THREAD_PRIORITY
 	int "Network initialization thread priority"
-	default 100
+	default 80
+	---help---
+		This should be set to a priority lower than most tasks.  The network
+		PHY polling is CPU intensive and can interfere with the usability of
+		of threads competing for CPU bandwidth.
 
 endif # NSH_NETINIT_THREAD