Re: [Bug #12650] Strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior with2.6.29-rc2-git1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here the calls to rcu_process_callbacks() are only 75 
> microseconds apart, so that this function is consuming more 
> than 10% of a CPU.  The strange thing is that I don't see a 
> raise_softirq() in between, though perhaps it gets inlined or 
> something that makes it invisible to ftrace.

look at the latest trace please, that has even the most inline 
raise-softirq method instrumented, so all the raising is 
visible.

	Ingo
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