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[Bug 1488426] Re: High CPU usage of kworker/ksoftirqd

 

hy i am having the same problem on my del inspiron 5555 
-------------- my top listing shows this 
  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                    
 3400 root      20   0       0      0      0 R  61,8  0,0  64:46.63 kworker/0:0                                                                
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  37,8  0,0  39:13.48 ksoftirqd/0                                                                
  827 root      20   0  407788 120076  98268 S   2,0  3,5   2:02.02 Xorg                                                                       
 5014 flori     20   0  621176  32344  25432 S   1,7  1,0   0:02.00 gnome-terminal-                                                            
    9 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,3  0,0   0:23.10 rcuos/0                                                                    
 1099 flori     20   0 1201488 141244  91212 S   0,3  4,2   4:04.16 compiz                                                       
 1515 flori     20   0  583176  32960  27260 S   0,3  1,0   0:07.11 nm-applet                                                                  

---------------my cat /proc/interrupts 
            CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3       
   0:         49          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
   1:        190         52         45        636   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
   7:          1          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge    
   8:          0          0          0          1   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
   9:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
  16:        104        117        191        146   IO-APIC   16-fasteoi   mmc0, snd_hda_intel
  18:      12810      12796      15208      52505   IO-APIC   18-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb3, ehci_hcd:usb4
  25:          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      PCIe PME, pciehp
  27:          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      PCIe PME
  29:          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      PCIe PME
  30:          2         10          6         30   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd
  31:          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd
  32:          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd
  33:          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd
  34:          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd
  36:          0          1          0        795   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
  37:       8895      10818      13275      52909   PCI-MSI-edge      0000:00:11.0
  38:          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      ccp-0
  39:          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      ccp-1
  43:         43         41         33         67   PCI-MSI-edge      snd_hda_intel
  44:    2859971         11         26         86   IO-APIC    8-fasteoi   ath9k
  45:     195622     140337     161305     908424   PCI-MSI-edge      fglrx[0]@PCI:0:1:0
  46:          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      fglrx[1]@PCI:1:0:0
 NMI:        846         76         73         80   Non-maskable interrupts
 LOC:    2778075    1326058    1332851    1598522   Local timer interrupts
 SPU:          0          0          0          0   Spurious interrupts
 PMI:        846         76         73         80   Performance monitoring interrupts
 IWI:          0          0          0          1   IRQ work interrupts
 RTR:          0          0          0          0   APIC ICR read retries
 RES:    1198530    2397416    1831870    1788606   Rescheduling interrupts
 CAL:       3400       2968       3613       3262   Function call interrupts
 TLB:      55078      63256      62325      67116   TLB shootdowns
 TRM:          0          0          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
 THR:          0          0          0          0   Threshold APIC interrupts
 MCE:          0          0          0          0   Machine check exceptions
 MCP:         92         92         92         92   Machine check polls
 HYP:          0          0          0          0   Hypervisor callback interrupts
 ERR:          1
 MIS:          0

help :))

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Title:
  High CPU usage of kworker/ksoftirqd

Status in HWE Next:
  New
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  kworker consuming 71.5% cpu resource
  ksoftirqd consuming 28.9% cpu resource

  It leads to power consumption issue and sometimes leads to BT does not
  work.

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