Update the documentation to reflect the 1Hz tick offload changes.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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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
