[patch] paravirt: allow NO_HZ, remove NO_IDLE_HZ dependency

[patch] paravirt: allow NO_HZ, remove NO_IDLE_HZ dependency

[Ingo Molnar]

Subject: [patch] paravirt: remove NO_IDLE_HZ dependency
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

PARAVIRT forces CONFIG_NO_HZ off - this is bad and prevents sane 
paravirtual guests like KVM from being able to use dynticks-enabled 
Linux guests. Remove this. Vmi-timer needs to be updated properly to 
make use of dynticks.

furthermore, remove the mistaken turning on of NO_IDLE_HZ on 
x86+PARAVIRT kernels, it's an obsolete, limited form of dynticks.

must-have for v2.6.21.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 arch/i386/Kconfig |   11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ config PARAVIRT
 
 config VMI
 	bool "VMI Paravirt-ops support"
-	depends on PARAVIRT && !NO_HZ
+	depends on PARAVIRT
 	default y
 	help
 	  VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to multiple hypervisors
@@ -1291,12 +1291,3 @@ 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.

Re: [patch] paravirt: allow NO_HZ, remove NO_IDLE_HZ dependency

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 12:29 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Subject: [patch] paravirt: remove NO_IDLE_HZ dependency
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> PARAVIRT forces CONFIG_NO_HZ off - this is bad and prevents sane 
> paravirtual guests like KVM from being able to use dynticks-enabled 
> Linux guests. Remove this. Vmi-timer needs to be updated properly to 
> make use of dynticks.
> 
> furthermore, remove the mistaken turning on of NO_IDLE_HZ on 
> x86+PARAVIRT kernels, it's an obsolete, limited form of dynticks.
> 
> must-have for v2.6.21.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

> ---
>  arch/i386/Kconfig |   11 +----------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig
> +++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
> @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ config PARAVIRT
>  
>  config VMI
>  	bool "VMI Paravirt-ops support"
> -	depends on PARAVIRT && !NO_HZ
> +	depends on PARAVIRT
>  	default y
>  	help
>  	  VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to multiple hypervisors
> @@ -1291,12 +1291,3 @@ 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.