Update the documentation to reflect the 1Hz tick offload changes.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frede...@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul...@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernel...@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 39ac9d4..c851e41 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1762,7 +1762,11 @@
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 is offloaded to workqueues that you need to
affine
+ to housekeeping through the sysfs file
+ /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask or using the
below
+ domain flag.
domain
Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation
this way
--
2.7.4
