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authorMarcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com>2019-09-03 16:05:37 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-09-03 16:05:37 +0200
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Documentation:kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: Remove reference to elevator=
This argument was not being considered since blk-mq was set by default, so removed this documentation to avoid confusion. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com> .txt file is now .rst Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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@@ -274,9 +274,7 @@ To reduce its OS jitter, do any of the following:
(based on an earlier one from Gilad Ben-Yossef) that
reduces or even eliminates vmstat overhead for some
workloads at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/4/379.
- e. Boot with "elevator=noop" to avoid workqueue use by
- the block layer.
- f. If running on high-end powerpc servers, build with
+ e. If running on high-end powerpc servers, build with
CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_DAEMON=n. This prevents the RTAS
daemon from running on each CPU every second or so.
(This will require editing Kconfig files and will defeat
@@ -284,12 +282,12 @@ To reduce its OS jitter, do any of the following:
due to the rtas_event_scan() function.
WARNING: Please check your CPU specifications to
make sure that this is safe on your particular system.
- g. If running on Cell Processor, build your kernel with
+ f. If running on Cell Processor, build your kernel with
CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR=n to avoid OS jitter from
spu_gov_work().
WARNING: Please check your CPU specifications to
make sure that this is safe on your particular system.
- h. If running on PowerMAC, build your kernel with
+ g. If running on PowerMAC, build your kernel with
CONFIG_PMAC_RACKMETER=n to disable the CPU-meter,
avoiding OS jitter from rackmeter_do_timer().