Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:32:54 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/33] nohz: Basic full dynticks interface
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On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 02:45:12PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 2013/3/8 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>:
> > 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. :-)

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

LOL.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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