Move all eth0 IRQ processing to CPU2 instead of CPU1 which is the default. CPU1 will continue handling all the USB interrupts which also include USB-Ethernet adapter interrupts. This significantly lowers the softirq load on CPU1 (from 99% to less than 10%) irqbalance could do the same and you can still run irqbalance because the /etc/init.d/irq-eth-pin script will add the eth0 to the ban list of irqbalance See interrupt load with while true; do clear; cat /proc/interrupts; sleep 1; done
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