Re: [RFC PATCH v4 02/13] ktask: multithread CPU-intensive kernel work

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On 11/5/18 8:55 AM, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 41583f468cb4..ed82f76ed0b7 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -346,6 +346,17 @@ config AUDIT_TREE
>  	depends on AUDITSYSCALL
>  	select FSNOTIFY
>  
> +config KTASK
> +	bool "Multithread CPU-intensive kernel work"
> +	depends on SMP
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	  Parallelize CPU-intensive kernel work.  This feature is designed for
> +          big machines that can take advantage of their extra CPUs to speed up
> +	  large kernel tasks.  When enabled, kworker threads may occupy more
> +          CPU time during these kernel tasks, but these threads are throttled
> +          when other tasks on the system need CPU time.

Use tab + 2 spaces consistently for help text indentation, please.

> +
>  source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
>  source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
>  source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"


-- 
~Randy



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