Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry

Arjan van de Ven
2015-11-17T02:57:18Z

On 11/16/2015 6:53 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Fair point. When in the five-jiffy throttling state, what can wake up
> a CPU? In an earlier version of this proposal, the answer was "nothing",
> but maybe that has changed.

device interrupts are likely to wake the cpus.