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]>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1d1d53f..50b9837 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1766,6 +1766,17 @@
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
--
2.7.4
