nohz: Switch from "extended nohz" to "full nohz" based naming
"Extended nohz" was used as a naming base for the full dynticks
API and Kconfig symbols. It reflects the fact the system tries
to stop the tick in more places than just idle.
But that "extended" name is a bit opaque and vague. Rename it to
"full" makes it clearer what the system tries to do under this
config: try to shutdown the tick anytime it can. The various
constraints that prevent that to happen shouldn't be considered
as fundamental properties of this feature but rather technical
issues that may be solved in the future.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index cbe64be..4a17b50 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
Most of the time you want to say Y here.
-config NO_HZ_EXTENDED
+config NO_HZ_FULL
bool "Full dynticks system (tickless single task)"
# NO_HZ_COMMON dependency
depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
task on the CPU. Chances for running tickless are maximized when
the task mostly runs in userspace and has few kernel activity.
- You need to fill up the nohz_extended boot parameter with the
+ You need to fill up the nohz_full boot parameter with the
desired range of dynticks CPUs.
This is implemented at the expense of some overhead in user <-> kernel