Re: clocksource_watchdog causing scheduling of timers every second (was [v13] support "task_isolation" mode)

From: Chris Metcalf
Date: Mon Aug 15 2016 - 11:04:32 EST


On 8/11/2016 7:58 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
Arguably we should issue a boot time warning if NOHZ_FULL is configured
>and the TSC watchdog is running.
That's a very good idea! We do that when tsc is unstable but indeed we can't
seriously run NOHZ_FULL on a non-reliable tsc.

I'll take care of that warning.

Thanks. So I will drop Christoph's patch to run the TSC watchdog on just
housekeeping cores and we will rely on the "boot time warning" instead.

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