Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/7] nohz: Add more comment about CONFIG_NO_HZ | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:19:51 +0200 |
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In order to prepare for adding a new config to implement adaptive tickless, clarify that CONFIG_NO_HZ alone only stops the tick on idle.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> --- kernel/time/Kconfig | 7 +++---- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig index fd42bd4..0883fa1 100644 --- a/kernel/time/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig @@ -58,13 +58,12 @@ config TICK_ONESHOT bool config NO_HZ - bool "Tickless System (Dynamic Ticks)" + bool "Tickless idle system (Dynamic idle Ticks)" depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS select TICK_ONESHOT help - This option enables a tickless system: timer interrupts will - only trigger on an as-needed basis both when the system is - busy and when the system is idle. + This option enables a tickless idle system: timer interrupts will + only trigger on an as-needed basis when the system is idle. config HIGH_RES_TIMERS bool "High Resolution Timer Support" -- 1.7.5.4
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