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tick-sched: add specific do_timer_cpu value for nohz off mode
authorDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Thu, 8 Dec 2011 04:32:13 +0000 (15:32 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:47:56 +0000 (16:47 +1100)
commit49a28a83089eaa2bb3c3acd9f9b1818b752c90bd
tree20812e4a742e35ae9682c48f6cce934e63227c48
parent324bfdecc3afd67105d46f6f44e7976b16c11811
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