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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.

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