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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/core: Update kernel boot parameters for LAZY preempt.
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:35:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241122173557.MYOtT95Q@linutronix.de> (raw)

Update the documentation for the `preempt=' parameter which now also
accepts `lazy'.

Fixes: 7c70cb94d29cd ("sched: Add Lazy preemption model")
Reported-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9cd9cd06538bf..23d9bd5ea7e47 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4818,6 +4818,11 @@
 			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
 			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
 			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
+			lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
+			       of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
+			       one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
+			       preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
+			       task returns to user space.
 
 	print-fatal-signals=
 			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
-- 
2.45.2


             reply	other threads:[~2024-11-22 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-22 17:35 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2024-11-25 13:00 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2024-12-02 11:14 ` [tip: sched/core] " tip-bot2 for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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