From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: timers: drop documentation about LB_BIAS
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 18:08:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1595088518-28116-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> (raw)
The LB_BIAS feature was removed in commit 1c1b8a7b03ef ("sched/fair:
Replace source_load() & target_load() with weighted_cpuload()"), so drop
the mention that it is disabled in the no_hz case.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
---
Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst b/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
index 065db21..c4c70e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
+++ b/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
@@ -171,8 +171,6 @@ not come for free:
slightly differently than those for non-adaptive-tick CPUs.
This might in turn perturb load-balancing of real-time tasks.
-6. The LB_BIAS scheduler feature is disabled by adaptive ticks.
-
Although improvements are expected over time, adaptive ticks is quite
useful for many types of real-time and compute-intensive applications.
However, the drawbacks listed above mean that adaptive ticks should not
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