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SubjectRe: ksoftirqd uses 99% CPU triggered by network traffic (maybe RLT-8139 related)
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:15:34 +0300 (EEST)
Pasi Sjoholm <ptsjohol@cc.jyu.fi> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Francois Romieu wrote:
>
> > Pasi Sjoholm <ptsjohol@cc.jyu.fi> :
> > [...]
> > > I haven't been able to reproduce this with normal www-browsing or
> > > ssh-connections but it's always reproducible when my eth0 is under heavy
> > > load.
> > I guess it can be reproduced even if the binary (nvidia ?) module is never
> > loaded after boot, right ?
>
> After 24 hours of hard working I can answer yes to this question.
> Now I can reproduce this from 2 to 15 minutes with 2 cp-processes from
> samba->workstation->nfs, some software building with make -j 3, playing
> some mp3 via nfs to notice when kernel goes down.. =) and so on..
>
> After that ksoftirqd takes almost all the cpu-time and the network is not
> working at all.

Is network traffic still coming in? or perhaps there is a network packet
that causes some soft irq to go into an infinite loop. The recent iptables bug
with ip options would be an example.
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