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For extreme usecases such as Real Time or HPC, having the ability to shutdown the tick when a single task runs on a CPU is a desired feature: * Reducing the amount of interrupts improves throughput for CPU-bound tasks. The CPU is less distracted from its real job, from an execution time and from the cache point of views. * This also improve latency response as we have less critical sections. Start with introducing a very simple interface to define full dynticks CPU: use a boot time option defined cpumask through the "nohz_extended=" kernel parameter. CPUs that are part of this range will have their tick shutdown whenever possible: provided they run a single task and they don't do kernel activity that require the periodic tick. These details will be later documented in Documentation/* An online CPU must be kept outside this range to handle the timekeeping. Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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#
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# Timer subsystem related configuration options
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#
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# Options selectable by arch Kconfig
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# Watchdog function for clocksources to detect instabilities
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config CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
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bool
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# Architecture has extra clocksource data
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config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
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bool
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# Platforms has a persistent clock
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config ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK
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bool
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default n
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# Timekeeping vsyscall support
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config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
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bool
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# Timekeeping vsyscall support
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config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
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bool
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# ktime_t scalar 64bit nsec representation
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config KTIME_SCALAR
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bool
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# Old style timekeeping
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config ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
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bool
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# The generic clock events infrastructure
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config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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bool
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# Migration helper. Builds, but does not invoke
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config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD
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bool
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default y
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depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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# Architecture can handle broadcast in a driver-agnostic way
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config ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST
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bool
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# Clockevents broadcasting infrastructure
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config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
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bool
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depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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# Automatically adjust the min. reprogramming time for
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# clock event device
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config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
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bool
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# Generic update of CMOS clock
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config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
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bool
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if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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menu "Timers subsystem"
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# Core internal switch. Selected by NO_HZ / HIGH_RES_TIMERS. This is
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# only related to the tick functionality. Oneshot clockevent devices
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# are supported independ of this.
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config TICK_ONESHOT
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bool
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config NO_HZ
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bool "Tickless System (Dynamic Ticks)"
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depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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select TICK_ONESHOT
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help
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This option enables a tickless system: timer interrupts will
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only trigger on an as-needed basis both when the system is
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busy and when the system is idle.
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config NO_HZ_EXTENDED
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bool "Full dynticks system"
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depends on NO_HZ && RCU_USER_QS && VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN && RCU_NOCB_CPU && SMP
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select CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
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help
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Adaptively try to shutdown the tick whenever possible, even when
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the CPU is running tasks. Typically this requires running a single
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task on the CPU. Chances for running tickless are maximized when
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the task mostly runs in userspace and has few kernel activity.
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You need to fill up the nohz_extended boot parameter with the
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desired range of dynticks CPUs.
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This is implemented at the expense of some overhead in user <-> kernel
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transitions: syscalls, exceptions and interrupts. Even when it's
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dynamically off.
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Say N.
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config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
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bool "High Resolution Timer Support"
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depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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select TICK_ONESHOT
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help
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This option enables high resolution timer support. If your
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hardware is not capable then this option only increases
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the size of the kernel image.
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endmenu
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endif
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