On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 15:17 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > * Sebastian Andrzej Siewior | 2016-01-13 18:58:45 [+0100]: > > > > > This is due to NO_HZ as far as I can tell. My AMD A10 in idle mode > > > has > > > 0.7% utilisation of ksoftirqd/ with CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC and with > > > CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL it shows about 25% on all CPU threads. > > > > This should fixed it: > > > > --- a/kernel/time/timer.c > > +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c > > @@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ u64 get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long > > basej, u64 basem) > > * the base lock to check when the next timer is pending and > > so > > * we assume the next jiffy. > > */ > > - return basej; > > + return basem + TICK_NSEC; > > #endif > > spin_lock(&base->lock); > > if (base->active_timers) { > > That's what I had done to stop the screaming interrupt, but box still > behaved very badly. If you turn off CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL and switch to NO_HZ_IDLE is it still bad? Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html