... I think you should start doing some more in-depth system profiling to see where that CPU is actually being used. Saying "ksoftirqd" is only a little helpful.
See if it's handling way too much interrupts, or whether there's lots of card error conditions, or the TX/RX queues are being too frequently checkeed, or ... -adiran
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