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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>
Wed, 7 Dec 2011 05:32:34 +0000 (16:32 +1100)
commitef6db0bbd06a56565f226e74bffe991453e8588e
tree0d3c811f1e584d368153551b1be8278814fd082b
parent14f0d2332a0cd51c9d0192cd2b623f67408b551a
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