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

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Message-ID: <20200723143256.192cdc71@lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:32:56 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: timers: drop documentation about LB_BIAS

On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 18:08:38 +0200
Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr> wrote:

> 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.
> -

Applied, thanks.

jon