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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>
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:43:02 +0000 (17:43 +1100)
commit988ce13db9fdacf3b8b9e4fa2a77d186d50a157e
tree9815f9bad62cc5dc39dfcc28581112955deb7c15
parent9b748506e70af26e2065e847786b8c1bce113a46
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