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Date:      Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:21:28 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Why is intr taking up so much cpu?
Message-ID:  <20100717192128.GM2381@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007171208010.1538@qbhto.arg>
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:10:26PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Rui Paulo wrote:
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> >This doesn't indicate any problem. I suggest you try to figure out what=
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> >interrupt is causing this by adding printfs or disabling drivers one by=
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> >one.
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> I've no idea where to even begin on something like that. Given that=20
> there are other -current users who are also having problems=20
> (particularly with the nvidia drivers) I'm wondering if some sort of=20
> systemic debugging isn't in order here?
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Note that intr time most likely come from the interrupt threads chewing
the CPU, not from the real interrupt handlers doing something, and definite=
ly
not due to the high interrupt rate, as your vmstat -i output already shown.

Run top in the mode where all system threads are shown separately
(e.g. top -HS seems to do it), then watch what thread eats the processor.

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