Commit 7b419f47 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra

sched: Add CONFIG_SCHED_CORE help text

Hugh noted that the SCHED_CORE Kconfig option could do with a help
text.
Requested-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YKyhtwhEgvtUDOyl@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
parent a8ea6fc9
......@@ -104,4 +104,18 @@ config SCHED_CORE
bool "Core Scheduling for SMT"
default y
depends on SCHED_SMT
help
This option permits Core Scheduling, a means of coordinated task
selection across SMT siblings. When enabled -- see
prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE) -- task selection ensures that all SMT siblings
will execute a task from the same 'core group', forcing idle when no
matching task is found.
Use of this feature includes:
- mitigation of some (not all) SMT side channels;
- limiting SMT interference to improve determinism and/or performance.
SCHED_CORE is default enabled when SCHED_SMT is enabled -- when
unused there should be no impact on performance.
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