linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 08/14] nohz_full: allow disabling the 1Hz minimum tick at boot

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Message-ID: <20151020205953.5cfa9195@grimm.local.home>
Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:59:53 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <giladb@...hip.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	<linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 08/14] nohz_full: allow disabling the 1Hz minimum
 tick at boot

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:18:13 -0400
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com> wrote:

> So perhaps a boot flag is an acceptable compromise between
> "nothing" and a debugfs tweak?  It certainly does make it easier
> to hack on the task-isolation code, and likely other things where
> people are trying out fixes to subsystems where they are attempting
> to remove the reliance on the tick.
> 

Just change the name to:

this_will_crash_your_kernel_and_kill_your_kittens_debug_1hz_tick

-- Steve
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