linux-kernel - kworker thread eating CPU time in 3.3-rc1

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Message-ID: <20120120043324.GA9929@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:33:24 +0900
From:	Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: kworker thread eating CPU time in 3.3-rc1

Dear all,

(please cc)

today I switched from 3.2 to 3.3-rc1 and now I have permanently
2 kworker threads each eating up 10-20% CPU time, which seems a bit
exaggerated, comparted to all the rest at below or around 1%.
There is nothing really crazy running, just a gnome3 desktop, firefox,
nothing fancy.

Any idea where this might come from?

Please let me know if you need more information.

Best wishes

Norbert
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