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Subject[PATCH 5/5] sched/isolation: Document "nohz_offload" flag
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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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