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| author | Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> | 2010-10-04 17:03:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-18 20:52:25 +0200 |
| commit | e82b8e4ea4f3dffe6e7939f90e78da675fcc450e (patch) | |
| tree | 116e54691f87d2cb0f2f5df36d1e114624c225d0 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | b52bfee445d315549d41eacf2fa7c156e7d153d5 (diff) | |
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x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
This patch adds IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING option on x86 and runtime enables it
when TSC is enabled.
This change just enables fine grained irq time accounting, isn't used yet.
Following patches use it for different purposes.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-6-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 8dd7248508a9..ed05a4a0d242 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2435,6 +2435,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file disables clocksource verification at runtime. Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in virtualized environment. + [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. + Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any + platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting + can add overhead. turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] TurboGraFX parallel port interface |
