On 01/13/2016 07:58 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

* Mike Galbraith | 2016-01-01 08:19:41 [+0100]:

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   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
     3 root      -2   0       0      0      0 S  37.3  0.0 307:52.44 ksoftirqd/0
    32 root      -2   0       0      0      0 S  37.3  0.0 308:08.72 ksoftirqd/2
    42 root      -2   0       0      0      0 R  37.3  0.0 308:32.84 ksoftirqd/3
    22 root      -2   0       0      0      0 S  26.9  0.0 222:29.82 ksoftirqd/1
     1 root      20   0   46628   6980   4976 S   1.3  0.2   0:13.98 systemd
22358 williams  20   0  159980   4552   3780 R   1.0  0.1   0:00.39 top

Heh, I didn't notice immediately because I throttle nohz, am seeing
only tiny utilization (but nohz idle isn't working).  With throttle
patch removed, box is screaming, expires=4294990471 pokes eyeball.

This is due to NO_HZ as far as I can tell. My AMD A10 in idle mode has
0.7% utilisation of ksoftirqd/ with CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC and with
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL it shows about 25% on all CPU threads.

I might be wrong completely, but could below two patches affect on
CPU utilization of ksoftirqd?

6047967 ksoftirqd: Use new cond_resched_rcu_qs() function
28423ad ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU

above two patches are not applied on -RT part of softirqs processing.

static void run_ksoftirqd(unsigned int cpu)
{
	local_irq_disable();
	current->softirq_nestcnt++;

	do_current_softirqs();
	current->softirq_nestcnt--;
	rcu_note_context_switch();

^^^ IRQs disabled
	local_irq_enable();
}

-- 
regards,
-grygorii