On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 10:56 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > it is probably not best possible setting but it is easy and simple > > to > > try out to see if it fix my problem. > > You probably do not want an rcuog kthread for each CPU, but it cannot > hurt to try it. > your prediction was correct with rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride=1, I got 4 rcuog tasks but it did not change anything to my interrupt issue. I start to feel that my intuition was wrong and the interrupts are coming from elsewhere... bottomline, my rcu settings has become better than before I contacted the list with rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride=4 and for that I am extremely grateful for the assistance that I have received here! thank you!