From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clockevents: Per cpu tick skew boot option
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 21:17:10 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1205072115000.6271@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336309127.7351.13.camel@marge.simpson.net>
On Sun, 6 May 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> + skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
> + xtime_lock contention on larger systems. Note: increases
> + power consumption, and should only be enabled if running
> + jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
> +
The "=" is wrong as skew_tick should not take parameters. It's
disabled by default. So "skew_tick" simply enables it, right ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-07 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-06 12:58 [PATCH] clockevents: Per cpu tick skew boot option Mike Galbraith
2012-05-06 13:10 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-05-07 19:17 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2012-05-08 3:20 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-05-08 9:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-05-08 10:20 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-05-10 18:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-05-23 15:23 ` [PATCH v3] " Mike Galbraith
2012-05-24 23:52 ` [tip:timers/core] tick: Add " tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
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