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On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 17:02 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> 
> In my case, I also had to disable the clocksource watchdog, but only
> because TSC is not stable on my VM.
> This is really not a nohz/cpuset problem. 

No but that thing is annoying, I ran afoul of it too the other day.

Thomas, would you object to a means of turning that thing off? And if
not, do you have a preference as to what particular means
(sysctl/sysfs/etc..) ?