Hi Florian, Ralf, it seems the method of calling the new time code changed or it was wrong all along, This patch fixes the problem of the ksoftirqd running all the time on Lasat systems, can you apply Ralf? /Brian Index: arch/mips/lasat/setup.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/linux/arch/mips/lasat/setup.c,v retrieving revision 1.1.2.5 diff -u -r1.1.2.5 setup.c --- arch/mips/lasat/setup.c 6 Oct 2002 11:38:14 -0000 1.1.2.5 +++ arch/mips/lasat/setup.c 17 Nov 2002 21:31:42 -0000 @@ -109,14 +109,10 @@ change_cp0_status(ST0_IM, IE_IRQ0 | IE_IRQ5); } +#define MIPS_CPU_TIMER_IRQ 7 asmlinkage void lasat_timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs) { - int cpu = smp_processor_id(); - - timer_interrupt(7, NULL, regs); - - if (softirq_pending(cpu)) - do_softirq(); + ll_timer_interrupt(MIPS_CPU_TIMER_IRQ, regs); } void __init lasat_setup(void)