Re: [Bug 5039] high cpu usage (softirq takes 50% all the time)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 03:13:49 EST


bugme-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5039
>

Well this is a depressing saga. A bunch of people whose machines appear to
be spending 50% CPU time in softirq processing. Some find that `noapic'
fixes it and some dont. Some are on x86_64, some are on x86.

I suspect we have multiple bugs here. It's quite a mess.

Could the reporters please, via a reply-to-all to this email:

a) test 2.6.14.

b) summarise the current status of your bug (what CPU type, what are the
symptoms, any known workarounds, etc).

c) Generate a kernel profile (see Documentation/basic_profiling.txt)

Generally, let's get a bit of action happening here and see if we can get
these relatively long-standing regressions fixed up, thanks.
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