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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/Kconfig | 80 |
1 files changed, 74 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig index 24510d84efd7..e4c07b0692bb 100644 --- a/kernel/time/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig @@ -64,20 +64,88 @@ config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS menu "Timers subsystem" -# Core internal switch. Selected by NO_HZ / HIGH_RES_TIMERS. This is +# Core internal switch. Selected by NO_HZ_COMMON / HIGH_RES_TIMERS. This is # only related to the tick functionality. Oneshot clockevent devices # are supported independ of this. config TICK_ONESHOT bool -config NO_HZ - bool "Tickless System (Dynamic Ticks)" +config NO_HZ_COMMON + bool depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS select TICK_ONESHOT + +choice + prompt "Timer tick handling" + default NO_HZ_IDLE if NO_HZ + +config HZ_PERIODIC + bool "Periodic timer ticks (constant rate, no dynticks)" + help + This option keeps the tick running periodically at a constant + rate, even when the CPU doesn't need it. + +config NO_HZ_IDLE + bool "Idle dynticks system (tickless idle)" + depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS + select NO_HZ_COMMON + help + This option enables a tickless idle system: timer interrupts + will only trigger on an as-needed basis when the system is idle. + This is usually interesting for energy saving. + + Most of the time you want to say Y here. + +config NO_HZ_FULL + bool "Full dynticks system (tickless)" + # NO_HZ_COMMON dependency + depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS + # We need at least one periodic CPU for timekeeping + depends on SMP + # RCU_USER_QS dependency + depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING + # VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN dependency + depends on 64BIT + select NO_HZ_COMMON + select RCU_USER_QS + select RCU_NOCB_CPU + select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN + select CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE + select IRQ_WORK + help + Adaptively try to shutdown the tick whenever possible, even when + the CPU is running tasks. Typically this requires running a single + task on the CPU. Chances for running tickless are maximized when + the task mostly runs in userspace and has few kernel activity. + + You need to fill up the nohz_full boot parameter with the + desired range of dynticks CPUs. + + This is implemented at the expense of some overhead in user <-> kernel + transitions: syscalls, exceptions and interrupts. Even when it's + dynamically off. + + Say N. + +endchoice + +config NO_HZ_FULL_ALL + bool "Full dynticks system on all CPUs by default" + depends on NO_HZ_FULL + help + If the user doesn't pass the nohz_full boot option to + define the range of full dynticks CPUs, consider that all + CPUs in the system are full dynticks by default. + Note the boot CPU will still be kept outside the range to + handle the timekeeping duty. + +config NO_HZ + bool "Old Idle dynticks config" + depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS help - This option enables a tickless system: timer interrupts will - only trigger on an as-needed basis both when the system is - busy and when the system is idle. + This is the old config entry that enables dynticks idle. + We keep it around for a little while to enforce backward + compatibility with older config files. config HIGH_RES_TIMERS bool "High Resolution Timer Support" |
