From: Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:29:28 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [PATCH] paravirt: remove NO_IDLE_HZ on x86 X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc3~58 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f1a73b6dd52f1f279c05263ee79ca14f45d9d25;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] paravirt: remove NO_IDLE_HZ on x86 Temove the mistaken turning on of NO_IDLE_HZ on x86+PARAVIRT kernels. It's an obsolete, limited form of dynticks. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index e970887b9e6..06590388662 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -1287,12 +1287,3 @@ config X86_TRAMPOLINE config KTIME_SCALAR bool default y - -config NO_IDLE_HZ - bool - depends on PARAVIRT - default y - help - Switches the regular HZ timer off when the system is going idle. - This helps a hypervisor detect that the Linux system is idle, - reducing the overhead of idle systems.