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tick-sched: add specific do_timer_cpu value for nohz off mode
authorDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:08:47 +0000 (14:08 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 6 Dec 2011 03:57:36 +0000 (14:57 +1100)
commit38935165104e90010311467fe56702ebc006ebe5
tree1e68a7aba296425755e2f1540cc4bc5b80fd58b3
parentd2a4f3c053ea5bcc300e56cd4750a70295e77af1
tick-sched: add specific do_timer_cpu value for nohz off mode

Show and modify the tick_do_timer_cpu via sysfs.  This determines the cpu
on which global time (jiffies) updates occur.  Modification can only be
done on systems with nohz mode turned off.

While not necessarily harmful, doing jiffies updates on an application cpu
does cause some extra overhead that HPC benchmarking people notice.  They
prefer to have OS activity isolated to certain cpus.  They like
reproducibility of results, and having jiffies updates bouncing around
introduces variability.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-timekeeping [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/base/sys.c
include/linux/sysdev.h
kernel/time/tick-sched.c