Re: [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 14:10 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> >  2161  FF [irq/50-iwlwifi]
> 
> Oh a threaded interrupt, I presume you're not using "threadiqrs" since
> this is the only interrupt thread around and I see a
> 'request_threaded_irq()' call in
> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
> 
> And wow, why would that thing consume that much cpu. 

How much is "that much"?

> Johill, ever seen the iwlwifi interrupt go 'funny' and consume gobs of
> cpu-time?

Not really, no, though if you do a lot of data transfer it can actually
consume a fair bit of CPU - made better by two somewhat recent patches,
commits 01911dab97cb3e21e640aaca82689acec00ed848 and
68972c46f2975d3d61f9dc9f311f77bfc8a8b12b.

johannes

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