netdev - Re: ksoftirqd high cpu load on kernels 2.6.24 to 2.6.27-rc1-mm1

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Message-ID: <20080807185802.GA16327@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:58:02 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Dushan Tcholich <dusanc@...il.com>
Cc:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ksoftirqd high cpu load on kernels 2.6.24 to 2.6.27-rc1-mm1

Dushan Tcholich <dusanc@...il.com> :
[...]
> 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.

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Ueimor
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