public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent users from disabling tickless
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:39:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101221233942.GL1263@parisc-linux.org> (raw)


Disabling NO_HZ has a serious negative effect on performance -- an extra
70us per I/O.  Prevent users from deselecting it.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>

diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index f06a8a3..55b9a04 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -5,13 +5,9 @@ config TICK_ONESHOT
 	bool
 
 config NO_HZ
-	bool "Tickless System (Dynamic Ticks)"
+	def_bool y
 	depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
 	select TICK_ONESHOT
-	help
-	  This option enables a tickless system: timer interrupts will
-	  only trigger on an as-needed basis both when the system is
-	  busy and when the system is idle.
 
 config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
 	bool "High Resolution Timer Support"

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

             reply	other threads:[~2010-12-21 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-21 23:39 Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2010-12-21 23:46 ` [PATCH] Prevent users from disabling tickless Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-22  0:24   ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-12-22  0:38     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-22 21:00 ` Frank Rowand
2010-12-22 21:34   ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-12-22 22:32     ` Frank Rowand
2010-12-26 22:22   ` Len Brown
2010-12-26 23:20     ` Grant Coady
2010-12-26 23:23     ` Regarding kernel work queue issues Raj Kumar
2010-12-25 15:42 ` [PATCH] Prevent users from disabling tickless Stefan Richter
2011-01-02  8:57 ` Pavel Machek
2011-01-02  9:15   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-02 10:59 ` Serge Belyshev
2011-01-02 11:06 ` Remy Bohmer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20101221233942.GL1263@parisc-linux.org \
    --to=matthew@wil.cx \
    --cc=arjan@infradead.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox