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author | Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> | 2012-05-08 12:20:58 +0200 |
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committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2012-05-25 01:44:50 +0200 |
commit | 5307c9556bc17e3cd26d4e94fc3b2565921834de (patch) | |
tree | e51937060ccd5e293dec7246a7961b0ae5509a53 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
parent | ce004178be1bbaa292e9e6497939e2970300095a (diff) | |
download | linux-5307c9556bc17e3cd26d4e94fc3b2565921834de.tar.bz2 |
tick: Add tick skew boot option
Let the user decide whether power consumption or jitter is the
more important consideration for their machines.
Quoting removal commit af5ab277ded04bd9bc6b048c5a2f0e7d70ef0867:
"Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the
various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on
xtime_lock.
Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens
since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition,
this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on
many-core systems."
Problems:
- Contrary to the above, systems do encounter contention on both
xtime_lock and RCU structure locks when the tick is synchronized.
- Moderate sized RT systems suffer intolerable jitter due to the tick
being synchronized.
- SGI reports the same for their large systems.
- Fully utilized systems reap no power saving benefit from skew removal,
but do suffer from resulting induced lock contention.
- 0209f649 rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout
This patch was born to combat lock contention which testing showed
to have been _induced by_ skew removal. Skew the tick, contention
disappeared virtually completely.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336472458.21924.78.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b69cfdc12112..ea38cd1f0aba 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2532,6 +2532,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. + skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate + xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock + contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. + Format: { "0" | "1" } + 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" + 1 -- enable. + Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be + enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. + security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first security module asking for security registration will be |