18 NET_TX 0 0 0 365 NET_RX 2472 2 2 40 BLOCK 0 0 381 1164 TASKLET 0 0 0 224 SCHED 462654 462689 462698 462427 RCU 3046 2423 3367 3173 $ cat /proc/softirqs CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 HI 0 0 0 0 TIMER 463361 465077 465056 464991 NET_TX 53 0 1 365 NET_RX 3757 2 2 40 BLOCK 0 0 398 1170 TASKLET 0 0 0 224 SCHED 463074 464318 464612 463330 RCU 3505 2948 3947 3673 When CPU TIME of softirq is high, the rates of increase is the following. TIMER : 220/sec : CPU1-3 NET_TX : 5/sec : CPU0 NET_RX : 120/sec : CPU0 SCHED : 40-200/sec : all CPU RCU : 45-58/sec : all CPU The rates of increase in an idle mode is the following. TIMER : 250/sec SCHED : 250/sec RCU : 2/sec It seems many softirqs for receiving packets and rcu are invoked. This gives us help for checking system. Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds §