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    kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU kthreads · 49717cb4
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    The Linux kernel uses a number of per-CPU kthreads, any of which might
    contribute to OS jitter at any time.  The usual approach to normal
    kthreads, namely to bind them to a "housekeeping" CPU, does not work
    with these kthreads because they cannot operate correctly if moved to
    some other CPU.  This commit therefore lists ways of controlling OS
    jitter from the Linux kernel's per-CPU kthreads.  It also lists some
    ways of diagnosing excessive jitter.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Olivier Baetz <olivier.baetz@novasparks.com>
    Cc: Pradeep Satyanarayana <pradeeps@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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