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nohz
Disable the tick when a single task runs.
+
+ A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
+ need to affine to housekeeping through the global
+ workqueue's affinity configured via the
+ /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
+ by using the 'domain' flag described below.
+
+ NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
+ so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
+ be configured manually after bootup.
+
domain
Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way