As per Linus suggestion, this take doesn't limit the number of occurences per jiffy anymore but instead defers a vector to workqueues as soon as it gets re-enqueued on IRQ tail.
No tunable here, so testing should be easier. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git softirq/thread-v3 HEAD: 6835e92cbd70ef4a056987d2e1ed383b294429d4 Thanks, Frederic --- Frederic Weisbecker (4): softirq: Limit vector to a single iteration on IRQ tail softirq: Per vector deferment to workqueue softirq: Defer to workqueue when rescheduling is needed softirq: Replace ksoftirqd with workqueues entirely Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt | 4 +- include/linux/interrupt.h | 7 +- kernel/sched/cputime.c | 12 +-- kernel/sched/sched.h | 4 +- kernel/softirq.c | 223 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 5 +- 6 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)