When a CPU is nohz there is a residual 1Hz that must be handled.
Accordingly to the documentation, this should be manually affined to
housekeeping.
This is no longer the case: the residual 1Hz is automatically offloaded
to workqueues already affined to housekeeping CPUs.
So change the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 ++---------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 902ecd92a29f..414fb42786c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2368,15 +2368,8 @@
nohz
Disable the tick when a single task runs.
- A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
- need to affine to housekeeping through the global
- workqueue's affinity configured via the
- /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
- by using the 'domain' flag described below.
-
- NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
- so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
- be configured manually after bootup.
+ A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, already
+ affined to housekeeping CPUs.
domain
Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
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