Commit 083c6eea authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Ingo Molnar

sched/isolation: Update nohz documentation to explain tick offload

Update the documentation to reflect the 1Hz tick offload changes.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519186649-3242-8-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent dcdedb24
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nohz
Disable the tick when a single task runs.
A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
need to affine to housekeeping through the global
workqueue's affinity configured via the
/sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
by using the 'domain' flag described below.
NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
be configured manually after bootup.
domain
Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
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