On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Steven Noonan [off-list ref] wrote:

And here's the change as I unload and reload ath9k:

[...]
20:21:38          sum  20138.83
20:21:40          sum  21576.09
20:21:41          sum  17678.38
20:21:42          sum  19834.34
20:21:43          sum  19845.10
20:21:44          sum  19470.00
20:21:45          sum   9273.00  <--- ath9k unloaded/reloaded
20:21:46          sum    187.00
20:21:47          sum   1066.00
20:21:48          sum    610.00
20:21:49          sum    106.93
20:21:50          sum    670.00
20:21:51          sum    742.00
20:21:52          sum    781.00
Average:          sum  19562.56

I think it might help if you can see the .sar file yourself. I've
uploaded a gzipped copy (great compression ratio in this case for
merely using gzip!).

http://www.uplinklabs.net/~tycho/linux/irqlog-storm.sar.gz

- Steven