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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/isolation.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 3872bc6ec49d..3fa0b4e65275 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2432,7 +2432,9 @@ specified in the flag list (default: domain): nohz - Disable the tick when a single task runs. + Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as + disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks + offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter. A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you need to affine to housekeeping through the global diff --git a/kernel/sched/isolation.c b/kernel/sched/isolation.c index 5345e11f3d44..6a686322ce3c 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/isolation.c +++ b/kernel/sched/isolation.c @@ -209,9 +209,13 @@ static int __init housekeeping_isolcpus_setup(char *str) int len; while (isalpha(*str)) { + /* + * isolcpus=nohz is equivalent to nohz_full. + */ if (!strncmp(str, "nohz,", 5)) { str += 5; - flags |= HK_FLAG_TICK; + flags |= HK_FLAG_TICK | HK_FLAG_WQ | HK_FLAG_TIMER | + HK_FLAG_RCU | HK_FLAG_MISC | HK_FLAG_KTHREAD; continue; } |