Have just tested 4.0-rc3 and the problem persists as before. Unable to get desktop environment and so unable to use gnome-system-monitor for names of processes and %cpu, but command line utility htop says it's almost totally ksoftirqd thread(s) and not so much kworker thread(s). Still, 25% of total CPU, which is 100% of one CPU. Problem exists with both of the external USB 3.0 hubs that I have which have different chipsets. If there are any nightly builds that you'd like me to check just let me know. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html