• Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
    nohz: Pack nohz Kconfig option in a menu of choices · 3ca277e4
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    Now the user has the choice between three implementations of
    the timer tick:
    
    * Static periodic tick
    * Idle dynticks
    * Full dynticks
    
    At least for now, these are mutually exclusive choices, so
    let's rely on the proper Kconfig feature to display these
    to the user.
    
    A new entry CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE is created and the old
    CONFIG_NO_HZ maps to it for config file backward compatibility.
    The old name was too general now that we have more
    granular dynticks implementations.
    
    While at it, add some explanation to help the user on
    his decision between the 3 entries.
    Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    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@linaro.org>
    Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
    Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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