From: Andi Kleen Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:15:34 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Some updates for boot-options.txt X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc5~147 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef4d7cbea773a77b36e732779cab4018ba2c037b;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] x86_64: Some updates for boot-options.txt Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt index b9e6be00ca..476c0c22fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Timing notsc Don't use the CPU time stamp counter to read the wall time. This can be used to work around timing problems on multiprocessor systems - with not properly synchronized CPUs. Only useful with a SMP kernel + with not properly synchronized CPUs. report_lost_ticks Report when timer interrupts are lost because some code turned off @@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ Idle loop event. This will make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using performance counters more accurate. + Please note that on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel EM64T + CPUs) this option has no performance advantage over the normal idle loop. + It may also interact badly with hyperthreading. Rebooting @@ -178,6 +181,5 @@ Debugging Misc noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropiate ones - for the CPU. This may be useful on asymmetric MP systems - where some CPU have less capabilities than the others. - + for the CPU. This may be useful on asymmetric MP systems + where some CPU have less capabilities than the others.