On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > my kernel reported: > > NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 20
Thats TASKLET_SOFTIRQ > I cannot interpret it, but probably this is bad, because before > bc5393a6c9c0e70b4b43fb2fb63e3315e9a15c8f this used to BUG(). We removed the BUG, because it's a situation where the kernel can easily recover. It should never happen that the kernel goes to sleep with a pending softirq, but it's not a fatal error. > This happend while having a high load. Up to now it only happend once > and I cannot reproduce it. That's hard to tell then. Without a reproducible test case I can not do much to help debugging this. tglx
