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Subject[PATCH] docs: timers: drop documentation about LB_BIAS
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The LB_BIAS feature was removed in commit 1c1b8a7b03ef ("sched/fair:
Replace source_load() & target_load() with weighted_cpuload()"), so drop
the mention that it is disabled in the no_hz case.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>

---
Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst b/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
index 065db21..c4c70e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
+++ b/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
@@ -171,8 +171,6 @@ not come for free:
slightly differently than those for non-adaptive-tick CPUs.
This might in turn perturb load-balancing of real-time tasks.

-6. The LB_BIAS scheduler feature is disabled by adaptive ticks.
-
Although improvements are expected over time, adaptive ticks is quite
useful for many types of real-time and compute-intensive applications.
However, the drawbacks listed above mean that adaptive ticks should not
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