Why is kslowd accumulating so much CPU time?

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

My laptop is running 2.6.35-rc2 (plus a few patches) and after not quite
four hours of beeing booted (3:45 to be precise), top shows that kslowd
has accumulated as surprising amount of CPU time.  From top display:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 6173 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    6  0.0  10:42.91 kslowd001
 1219 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    5  0.0  11:00.68 kslowd000
 1765 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    5  0.0  10:59.20 kslowd002
 6784 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    4  0.0  10:34.37 kslowd003
 4946 root      20   0  144m  34m  17m S    3  0.9   2:24.62 Xorg

This came up because I was trying to figure out why mouse response was
being so jerky.  There aren't that many users of slow-work, and given
that I'm not using cifs, fscache, gfs2, my suspicions are falling on
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c (Would this be something that would be
in use on a Lenovo T400 laptop?)

Is there any way to easily see what is scheduling themselves to use the
slow workqueue?

Thanks,

						- Ted