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 depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
96 # VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN dependency
97 depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
100 select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
103 Adaptively try to shutdown the tick whenever possible, even when
104 the CPU is running tasks. Typically this requires running a single
105 task on the CPU. Chances for running tickless are maximized when
106 the task mostly runs in userspace and has few kernel activity.
108 You need to fill up the nohz_full boot parameter with the
109 desired range of dynticks CPUs.
111 This is implemented at the expense of some overhead in user <-> kernel
112 transitions: syscalls, exceptions and interrupts. Even when it's
119 config NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
120 bool "Full dynticks system on all CPUs by default (except CPU 0)"
121 depends on NO_HZ_FULL
123 If the user doesn't pass the nohz_full boot option to
124 define the range of full dynticks CPUs, consider that all
125 CPUs in the system are full dynticks by default.
126 Note the boot CPU will still be kept outside the range to
127 handle the timekeeping duty.
129 config NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
130 bool "Detect full-system idle state for full dynticks system"
131 depends on NO_HZ_FULL
134 At least one CPU must keep the scheduling-clock tick running for
135 timekeeping purposes whenever there is a non-idle CPU, where
136 "non-idle" also includes dynticks CPUs as long as they are
137 running non-idle tasks. Because the underlying adaptive-tick
138 support cannot distinguish between all CPUs being idle and
139 all CPUs each running a single task in dynticks mode, the
140 underlying support simply ensures that there is always a CPU
141 handling the scheduling-clock tick, whether or not all CPUs
142 are idle. This Kconfig option enables scalable detection of
143 the all-CPUs-idle state, thus allowing the scheduling-clock
144 tick to be disabled when all CPUs are idle. Note that scalable
145 detection of the all-CPUs-idle state means that larger systems
146 will be slower to declare the all-CPUs-idle state.
148 Say Y if you would like to help debug all-CPUs-idle detection.
150 Say N if you are unsure.
152 config NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE_SMALL
153 int "Number of CPUs above which large-system approach is used"
154 depends on NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
158 The full-system idle detection mechanism takes a lazy approach
159 on large systems, as is required to attain decent scalability.
160 However, on smaller systems, scalability is not anywhere near as
161 large a concern as is energy efficiency. The sysidle subsystem
162 therefore uses a fast but non-scalable algorithm for small
163 systems and a lazier but scalable algorithm for large systems.
164 This Kconfig parameter defines the number of CPUs in the largest
165 system that will be considered to be "small".
167 The default value will be fine in most cases. Battery-powered
168 systems that (1) enable NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE, (2) have larger
169 numbers of CPUs, and (3) are suffering from battery-lifetime
170 problems due to long sysidle latencies might wish to experiment
171 with larger values for this Kconfig parameter. On the other
172 hand, they might be even better served by disabling NO_HZ_FULL
173 entirely, given that NO_HZ_FULL is intended for HPC and
174 real-time workloads that at present do not tend to be run on
175 battery-powered systems.
177 Take the default if you are unsure.
180 bool "Old Idle dynticks config"
181 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
183 This is the old config entry that enables dynticks idle.
184 We keep it around for a little while to enforce backward
185 compatibility with older config files.
187 config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
188 bool "High Resolution Timer Support"
189 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
192 This option enables high resolution timer support. If your
193 hardware is not capable then this option only increases
194 the size of the kernel image.