[PATCH v2 4/4] Documentation: no_hz: Add tick stop in polling idle

[Marco Crivellari]

On nohz_full CPUs the scheduling-clock tick is stopped while polling.
Update the documentation accordingly.

Cc: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@xxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst b/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
index 4006cab64079..86cea04d2a49 100644
--- a/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
+++ b/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
@@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ Known Issues
 		be even worse than that of dyntick-idle.  Furthermore,
 		this parameter effectively disables Turbo Mode on Intel
 		CPUs, which can significantly reduce maximum performance.
+		Note also that on nohz_full CPUs the scheduling-clock tick
+		is stopped while polling, as in the other idle states.
 
 *	Adaptive-ticks slows user/kernel transitions slightly.
 	This is not expected to be a problem for computationally intensive
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