Re: [RFC PATCH 12/15] clocksource: Ignore nohz task cpu inclocksource watchdog

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 16:24 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> The watchdog should probably make an exception for nohz task cpus
> that want to be interrupted the least possible.
> 
> However we probably need to warn the user about that.
> 
> Another solution would be to make this timer defferable.

Nah, both skipping a cpu and making the timer deferrable render the
watchdog useless, just disable the thing.
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