What are the "hiq" and "siq" fields in dstat cpu output

Question

dstat CPU metrics has two fields named hiq and siq . What are these fields? Are these some kind of hardware interrupts and software interrupts?

Answer 1

They are from /proc/stat ( http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/procstat.htm ):

 hiq - irq: servicing interrupts siq - softirq: servicing softirqs