From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: ksoftirqd high cpu load on kernels 2.6.24 to 2.6.27-rc1-mm1 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:58:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20080807185802.GA16327@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <48975BD3.6040709@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Robert Hancock , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Dushan Tcholich Return-path: Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:36272 "EHLO electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752629AbYHGS6K (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:58:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dushan Tcholich : [...] > I googled a little and found out that oprofile is a little above my head. > So as I thought that some driver or HW might be responsible for this I > tried to disable various onboard HW and found out that if I disable > onboard ethernet problem dissapears, so now I've added netdev and > maintainer of R8169 driver to cc. Can you try 2.6.27-rc2 and send the content of /proc/interrupts, dmesg, ifconfig as well as a capture of the strange output from top ? It seems rather benign though. -- Ueimor