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Documentation:kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: Remove reference to elevator=

This argument was not being considered since blk-mq was set by default,
so removed this documentation to avoid confusion.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com>

.txt file is now .rst

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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Marcos Paulo de Souza and committed by
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Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst
··· 274 274 (based on an earlier one from Gilad Ben-Yossef) that 275 275 reduces or even eliminates vmstat overhead for some 276 276 workloads at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/4/379. 277 - e. Boot with "elevator=noop" to avoid workqueue use by 278 - the block layer. 279 - f. If running on high-end powerpc servers, build with 277 + e. If running on high-end powerpc servers, build with 280 278 CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_DAEMON=n. This prevents the RTAS 281 279 daemon from running on each CPU every second or so. 282 280 (This will require editing Kconfig files and will defeat ··· 282 284 due to the rtas_event_scan() function. 283 285 WARNING: Please check your CPU specifications to 284 286 make sure that this is safe on your particular system. 285 - g. If running on Cell Processor, build your kernel with 287 + f. If running on Cell Processor, build your kernel with 286 288 CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR=n to avoid OS jitter from 287 289 spu_gov_work(). 288 290 WARNING: Please check your CPU specifications to 289 291 make sure that this is safe on your particular system. 290 - h. If running on PowerMAC, build your kernel with 292 + g. If running on PowerMAC, build your kernel with 291 293 CONFIG_PMAC_RACKMETER=n to disable the CPU-meter, 292 294 avoiding OS jitter from rackmeter_do_timer(). 293 295