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nohz: Improve a bit the full dynticks Kconfig documentation
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:04:04 +0000 (17:04 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:18:04 +0000 (20:18 +0200)
Remove the "single task" statement from CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
title. The constraint can be invalidated when tasks from
other sched classes than SCHED_FAIR are running. Moreover
it's possible that hrtick join the party in the future.

Also add a line about the dependency on SMP.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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: 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>
kernel/time/Kconfig

index 3b683227a10d011b158492fb244b28cf571366db..358d601a4fec8881f3a4089f4fc051710b36c363 100644 (file)
@@ -97,11 +97,13 @@ config NO_HZ_IDLE
          Most of the time you want to say Y here.
 
 config NO_HZ_FULL
-       bool "Full dynticks system (tickless single task)"
+       bool "Full dynticks system (tickless)"
        # NO_HZ_COMMON dependency
        depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
-       # RCU_USER_QS
-       depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
+       # We need at least one periodic CPU for timekeeping
+       depends on SMP
+       # RCU_USER_QS dependency
+       depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
        # RCU_NOCB_CPU dependency
        depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
        depends on VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN