linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/33] nohz: Basic full dynticks interface

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Message-ID: <20130308143254.GE10714@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:32:54 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
	Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/33] nohz: Basic full dynticks interface

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 02:45:12PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 2013/3/8 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>:
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 12:35:47AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >> I think that "Full dynticks system" would express well what happens?
> >
> > Yeah, it probably doesn't really matter all that much in the end -
> > people will refer to this with different names like with other features
> > in Linux anyway. :-)
> 
> Right, with some more or less precision, and different shades of
> metaphor or metonymy :)
> 
> Dynticks, tickless, nohz, cpu isolation, pendulum clock noise free
> kernel, bare metal performance snort, walking alone and free through
> Latvian forests.

"... completely naked." You definitely need that too. :-)

Ok, put all those above in the Kconfig help text and ship it - people
will *now* know what it is.

LOL.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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