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Revision 8d4698f7a54a492a1b96c505b30fe750ae3e61d5 authored by Stephen Hemminger on 08 September 2008, 20:44:40 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 08 September 2008, 20:46:54 UTC
Dushan Tcholich reports that on his system ksoftirqd can consume
between %6 to %10 of cpu time, and cause ~200 context switches per
second.

He then correlated this with a report by bdupree@techfinesse.com:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119613299024398&w=2

and the culprit cause seems to be starting the bridge interface.
In particular, when starting the bridge interface, his scripts
are specifying a hello timer interval of "0".

The bridge hello time can't be safely set to values less than 1
second, otherwise it is possible to end up with a runaway timer.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: 8d4698f7a54a492a1b96c505b30fe750ae3e61d5 authored by Stephen Hemminger on 08 September 2008, 20:44:40 UTC
bridge: don't allow setting hello time to zero
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