On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:30:01PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:51:29PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > The default timekeeper (aka CPU 0) is the perfect candidate for this > > task since it can't be offlined itself. > > Like said previously, yes it can!
I'll rephrase that in the changelog to precise that it's the tick hotplug handler which prevent it to offline. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/