Re: Dynticks Causing High Context Switch Rate in ksoftirqd

[Robert Hancock]

bdupree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> I've attached additional detail on the config of the misbehaving system
> including output from oprofile and PowerTop. PowerTop output leads me to
> believe that maybe this is an interaction between my bridged ethernet
> setup and dynticks? Hmmm...

Don't know about that, your top wakeups are from br_stp_enable_bridge, 
but that is only 26 a second - that doesn't explain a context switch 
rate of 150,000 a second..

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