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

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Fri Mar 08 2013 - 11:55:48 EST


2013/3/8 Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 02:45:12PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> 2013/3/8 Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > 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. :-)

I didn't mean _that_ free, but while at it, the picture will never be
complete without a chainsaw.

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

At last!
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