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 # Clocksources require validation of the clocksource against the last
16 # cycle update - x86/TSC misfeature
17 config CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
20 # Timekeeping vsyscall support
21 config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
24 # Timekeeping vsyscall support
25 config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
28 # Old style timekeeping
29 config ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
32 # The generic clock events infrastructure
33 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
36 # Architecture can handle broadcast in a driver-agnostic way
37 config ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST
40 # Clockevents broadcasting infrastructure
41 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
43 depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
45 # Automatically adjust the min. reprogramming time for
47 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
50 # Generic update of CMOS clock
51 config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
54 if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
55 menu "Timers subsystem"
57 # Core internal switch. Selected by NO_HZ_COMMON / HIGH_RES_TIMERS. This is
58 # only related to the tick functionality. Oneshot clockevent devices
59 # are supported independ of this.
65 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
69 prompt "Timer tick handling"
70 default NO_HZ_IDLE if NO_HZ
73 bool "Periodic timer ticks (constant rate, no dynticks)"
75 This option keeps the tick running periodically at a constant
76 rate, even when the CPU doesn't need it.
79 bool "Idle dynticks system (tickless idle)"
80 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
83 This option enables a tickless idle system: timer interrupts
84 will only trigger on an as-needed basis when the system is idle.
85 This is usually interesting for energy saving.
87 Most of the time you want to say Y here.
90 bool "Full dynticks system (tickless)"
91 # NO_HZ_COMMON dependency
92 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
93 # We need at least one periodic CPU for timekeeping
95 # RCU_USER_QS dependency
96 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
97 # VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN dependency
98 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
102 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
105 Adaptively try to shutdown the tick whenever possible, even when
106 the CPU is running tasks. Typically this requires running a single
107 task on the CPU. Chances for running tickless are maximized when
108 the task mostly runs in userspace and has few kernel activity.
110 You need to fill up the nohz_full boot parameter with the
111 desired range of dynticks CPUs.
113 This is implemented at the expense of some overhead in user <-> kernel
114 transitions: syscalls, exceptions and interrupts. Even when it's
121 config NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
122 bool "Full dynticks system on all CPUs by default (except CPU 0)"
123 depends on NO_HZ_FULL
125 If the user doesn't pass the nohz_full boot option to
126 define the range of full dynticks CPUs, consider that all
127 CPUs in the system are full dynticks by default.
128 Note the boot CPU will still be kept outside the range to
129 handle the timekeeping duty.
131 config NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
132 bool "Detect full-system idle state for full dynticks system"
133 depends on NO_HZ_FULL
136 At least one CPU must keep the scheduling-clock tick running for
137 timekeeping purposes whenever there is a non-idle CPU, where
138 "non-idle" also includes dynticks CPUs as long as they are
139 running non-idle tasks. Because the underlying adaptive-tick
140 support cannot distinguish between all CPUs being idle and
141 all CPUs each running a single task in dynticks mode, the
142 underlying support simply ensures that there is always a CPU
143 handling the scheduling-clock tick, whether or not all CPUs
144 are idle. This Kconfig option enables scalable detection of
145 the all-CPUs-idle state, thus allowing the scheduling-clock
146 tick to be disabled when all CPUs are idle. Note that scalable
147 detection of the all-CPUs-idle state means that larger systems
148 will be slower to declare the all-CPUs-idle state.
150 Say Y if you would like to help debug all-CPUs-idle detection.
152 Say N if you are unsure.
154 config NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE_SMALL
155 int "Number of CPUs above which large-system approach is used"
156 depends on NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
160 The full-system idle detection mechanism takes a lazy approach
161 on large systems, as is required to attain decent scalability.
162 However, on smaller systems, scalability is not anywhere near as
163 large a concern as is energy efficiency. The sysidle subsystem
164 therefore uses a fast but non-scalable algorithm for small
165 systems and a lazier but scalable algorithm for large systems.
166 This Kconfig parameter defines the number of CPUs in the largest
167 system that will be considered to be "small".
169 The default value will be fine in most cases. Battery-powered
170 systems that (1) enable NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE, (2) have larger
171 numbers of CPUs, and (3) are suffering from battery-lifetime
172 problems due to long sysidle latencies might wish to experiment
173 with larger values for this Kconfig parameter. On the other
174 hand, they might be even better served by disabling NO_HZ_FULL
175 entirely, given that NO_HZ_FULL is intended for HPC and
176 real-time workloads that at present do not tend to be run on
177 battery-powered systems.
179 Take the default if you are unsure.
182 bool "Old Idle dynticks config"
183 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
185 This is the old config entry that enables dynticks idle.
186 We keep it around for a little while to enforce backward
187 compatibility with older config files.
189 config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
190 bool "High Resolution Timer Support"
191 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
194 This option enables high resolution timer support. If your
195 hardware is not capable then this option only increases
196 the size of the kernel image.