Re: [PATCH] clockevents: Per cpu tick skew boot option

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sun, 6 May 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>  
> +	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
> +			xtime_lock contention on larger systems.  Note: increases
> +			power consumption, and should only be enabled if running
> +			jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
> +

The "=" is wrong as skew_tick should not take parameters. It's
disabled by default. So "skew_tick" simply enables it, right ?

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