Re: [PATCH 08/41] nohz: Try not to give the timekeeping duty to anadaptive tickless cpu

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 1 May 2012, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> Try to give the timekeeing duty to a CPU that doesn't belong
> to any nohz cpuset when possible, so that we increase the chance
> for these nohz cpusets to run their CPUs out of periodic tick
> mode.
>
> [TODO: We need to find a way to ensure there is always one non-nohz
> running CPU maintaining the timekeeping duty if every non-idle CPUs are
> adaptive tickless]

I sure wish this would also be pinnable to a specific cpu.
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