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A following patch will trigger NOHZ idle balances as a means to update nohz.next_balance. Vincent noted that blocked load updates can have non-negligible overhead, which should be avoided if the intent is to only update nohz.next_balance. Add a new NOHZ balance kick flag, NOHZ_NEXT_KICK. Gate NOHZ blocked load update by the presence of NOHZ_STATS_KICK - currently all NOHZ balance kicks will have the NOHZ_STATS_KICK flag set, so no change in behaviour is expected. Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210823111700.2842997-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.