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| author |   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2018-04-09 10:50:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2018-04-09 10:50:17 -0700 |
| commit | e13e75b86ef2f88e3a47d672dd4c52a293efb95b (patch) | |
| tree | 2617aebd952d1aec09d323f6b2484b93f659e753 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-4.17/libnvdimm' into libnvdimm-for-next (diff) | |
| parent | dax, dm: allow device-mapper to operate without dax support (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-4.17/dax' into libnvdimm-for-next
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 1d1d53f85ddd..50b9837e985b 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 |