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Message-Id: <20190828011930.29791-5-marcos.souza.org@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:19:30 -0300
From:   Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:     Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@...il.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
Subject: [RESEND PATCH 4/4] Documentation:kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: Remove reference to elevator=

This argument was not being considered since blk-mq was set by default,
so removed this documentation to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt b/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
index 5623b9916411..c68c6c8c26a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
@@ -274,9 +274,7 @@ To reduce its OS jitter, do any of the following:
 		(based on an earlier one from Gilad Ben-Yossef) that
 		reduces or even eliminates vmstat overhead for some
 		workloads at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/4/379.
-	e.	Boot with "elevator=noop" to avoid workqueue use by
-		the block layer.
-	f.	If running on high-end powerpc servers, build with
+	e.	If running on high-end powerpc servers, build with
 		CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_DAEMON=n.  This prevents the RTAS
 		daemon from running on each CPU every second or so.
 		(This will require editing Kconfig files and will defeat
@@ -284,12 +282,12 @@ To reduce its OS jitter, do any of the following:
 		due to the rtas_event_scan() function.
 		WARNING:  Please check your CPU specifications to
 		make sure that this is safe on your particular system.
-	g.	If running on Cell Processor, build your kernel with
+	f.	If running on Cell Processor, build your kernel with
 		CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR=n to avoid OS jitter from
 		spu_gov_work().
 		WARNING:  Please check your CPU specifications to
 		make sure that this is safe on your particular system.
-	h.	If running on PowerMAC, build your kernel with
+	g.	If running on PowerMAC, build your kernel with
 		CONFIG_PMAC_RACKMETER=n to disable the CPU-meter,
 		avoiding OS jitter from rackmeter_do_timer().
 
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