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authorJiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>2023-05-22 01:31:22 +0300
committerThomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>2023-06-09 11:34:14 +0300
commit96cb8ae28c652e7ef0633b1c0786eb0f529ed516 (patch)
tree3490ae910dca2655c0fd16b9ece2d4974dc9e886 /Documentation/admin-guide
parentdfbd992e0ef2319b869bf69fe649d34d2dc49e4b (diff)
downloadlinux-96cb8ae28c652e7ef0633b1c0786eb0f529ed516.tar.xz
MIPS: Rework smt cmdline parameters
Provide a generic smt parameters interface aligned with s390 to allow users to limit smt usage and threads per core. It replaced previous undocumented "nothreads" parameter for smp-cps which is ambiguous and does not cover smp-mt. Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9e5bab29685f..50439f410adc 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3838,7 +3838,7 @@
nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
- nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
+ nosmt [KNL,MIPS,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
Equivalent to smt=1.
[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
@@ -5735,7 +5735,7 @@
1: Fast pin select (default)
2: ATC IRMode
- smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
+ smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
actual hardware limit.