Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | [PATCH 5/5] sched/isolation: Document "nohz_offload" flag | Date | Tue, 19 Dec 2017 04:23:58 +0100 |
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Document the interface to offload the 1Hz scheduler tick in full dynticks mode. Also improve the comment about the existing "nohz" flag in order to differentiate its behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 1683107..fcc5fd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1745,7 +1745,12 @@ specified in the flag list (default: domain): nohz - Disable the tick when a single task runs. + Disable the tick when a single task runs. A residual 1Hz + tick remains to maintain scheduler stats alive. + nohz_offload + Like nohz but the residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to + housekeeping CPUs, leaving the CPU free of any tick if + nothing else requests it. domain Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way -- 2.7.4
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