linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs: timers: drop documentation about LB

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Message-Id: <1595088518-28116-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Date:   Sat, 18 Jul 2020 18:08:38 +0200
From:   Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: timers: drop documentation about LB_BIAS

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@...ia.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