Merge tag 'please-pull-mce-therm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...
[firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git] / Documentation / kernel-parameters.txt
index 6e3b18a8afc6a8749d3d91fd559e2bd5c62cadfc..7310b08bee5e64ffc426373d112b916af90ac7cd 100644 (file)
@@ -1158,6 +1158,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
        inport.irq=     [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
                        Format: <irq>
 
+       int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
+
        intel_iommu=    [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
                on
                        Enable intel iommu driver.
@@ -3341,6 +3343,21 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
                        workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
 
+       workqueue.power_efficient
+                       Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
+                       they show better performance thanks to cache
+                       locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
+                       be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
+
+                       Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
+                       were observed to contribute significantly to power
+                       consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
+                       power usage at the cost of small performance
+                       overhead.
+
+                       The default value of this parameter is determined by
+                       the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
+
        x2apic_phys     [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
                        default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
                        supporting x2apic.
@@ -3351,9 +3368,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
                        x86_mrst_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
 
-       xd=             [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
-       xd_geo=         See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
-
        xen_emul_unplug=                [HW,X86,XEN]
                        Unplug Xen emulated devices
                        Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]