2 # Timer subsystem related configuration options
5 # Options selectable by arch Kconfig
7 # Watchdog function for clocksources to detect instabilities
8 config CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
11 # Architecture has extra clocksource data
12 config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
15 # Timekeeping vsyscall support
16 config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
19 # Timekeeping vsyscall support
20 config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
23 # ktime_t scalar 64bit nsec representation
27 # Old style timekeeping
28 config ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
31 # The generic clock events infrastructure
32 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
35 # Migration helper. Builds, but does not invoke
36 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD
39 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
41 # Architecture can handle broadcast in a driver-agnostic way
42 config ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST
45 # Clockevents broadcasting infrastructure
46 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
48 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
50 # Automatically adjust the min. reprogramming time for
52 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
55 # Generic update of CMOS clock
56 config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
59 if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
60 menu "Timers subsystem"
62 # Core internal switch. Selected by NO_HZ_COMMON / HIGH_RES_TIMERS. This is
63 # only related to the tick functionality. Oneshot clockevent devices
64 # are supported independ of this.
70 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
74 prompt "Timer tick handling"
75 default NO_HZ_IDLE if NO_HZ
78 bool "Periodic timer ticks (constant rate, no dynticks)"
80 This option keeps the tick running periodically at a constant
81 rate, even when the CPU doesn't need it.
84 bool "Idle dynticks system (tickless idle)"
85 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
88 This option enables a tickless idle system: timer interrupts
89 will only trigger on an as-needed basis when the system is idle.
90 This is usually interesting for energy saving.
92 Most of the time you want to say Y here.
95 bool "Full dynticks system (tickless)"
96 # NO_HZ_COMMON dependency
97 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
98 # We need at least one periodic CPU for timekeeping
100 # RCU_USER_QS dependency
101 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
102 # VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN dependency
107 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
110 Adaptively try to shutdown the tick whenever possible, even when
111 the CPU is running tasks. Typically this requires running a single
112 task on the CPU. Chances for running tickless are maximized when
113 the task mostly runs in userspace and has few kernel activity.
115 You need to fill up the nohz_full boot parameter with the
116 desired range of dynticks CPUs.
118 This is implemented at the expense of some overhead in user <-> kernel
119 transitions: syscalls, exceptions and interrupts. Even when it's
126 config NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
127 bool "Full dynticks system on all CPUs by default"
128 depends on NO_HZ_FULL
130 If the user doesn't pass the nohz_full boot option to
131 define the range of full dynticks CPUs, consider that all
132 CPUs in the system are full dynticks by default.
133 Note the boot CPU will still be kept outside the range to
134 handle the timekeeping duty.
136 config NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
137 bool "Detect full-system idle state for full dynticks system"
138 depends on NO_HZ_FULL
141 At least one CPU must keep the scheduling-clock tick running for
142 timekeeping purposes whenever there is a non-idle CPU, where
143 "non-idle" also includes dynticks CPUs as long as they are
144 running non-idle tasks. Because the underlying adaptive-tick
145 support cannot distinguish between all CPUs being idle and
146 all CPUs each running a single task in dynticks mode, the
147 underlying support simply ensures that there is always a CPU
148 handling the scheduling-clock tick, whether or not all CPUs
149 are idle. This Kconfig option enables scalable detection of
150 the all-CPUs-idle state, thus allowing the scheduling-clock
151 tick to be disabled when all CPUs are idle. Note that scalable
152 detection of the all-CPUs-idle state means that larger systems
153 will be slower to declare the all-CPUs-idle state.
155 Say Y if you would like to help debug all-CPUs-idle detection.
157 Say N if you are unsure.
159 config NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE_SMALL
160 int "Number of CPUs above which large-system approach is used"
161 depends on NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
165 The full-system idle detection mechanism takes a lazy approach
166 on large systems, as is required to attain decent scalability.
167 However, on smaller systems, scalability is not anywhere near as
168 large a concern as is energy efficiency. The sysidle subsystem
169 therefore uses a fast but non-scalable algorithm for small
170 systems and a lazier but scalable algorithm for large systems.
171 This Kconfig parameter defines the number of CPUs in the largest
172 system that will be considered to be "small".
174 The default value will be fine in most cases. Battery-powered
175 systems that (1) enable NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE, (2) have larger
176 numbers of CPUs, and (3) are suffering from battery-lifetime
177 problems due to long sysidle latencies might wish to experiment
178 with larger values for this Kconfig parameter. On the other
179 hand, they might be even better served by disabling NO_HZ_FULL
180 entirely, given that NO_HZ_FULL is intended for HPC and
181 real-time workloads that at present do not tend to be run on
182 battery-powered systems.
184 Take the default if you are unsure.
187 bool "Old Idle dynticks config"
188 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
190 This is the old config entry that enables dynticks idle.
191 We keep it around for a little while to enforce backward
192 compatibility with older config files.
194 config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
195 bool "High Resolution Timer Support"
196 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
199 This option enables high resolution timer support. If your
200 hardware is not capable then this option only increases
201 the size of the kernel image.