From 34ed62461ae4970695974afb9a60ac3df0086830 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:37:42 -0800 Subject: rcu: Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs Currently, CPU 0 is constrained to not be a no-CBs CPU, and furthermore at least one no-CBs CPU must remain online at any given time. These restrictions are problematic in some situations, such as cases where all CPUs must run a real-time workload that needs to be insulated from OS jitter and latencies due to RCU callback invocation. This commit therefore provides no-CBs CPUs a (very crude and energy-inefficient) way to start and to wait for grace periods independently of the normal RCU callback mechanisms. This approach allows any or all of the CPUs to be designated as no-CBs CPUs, and allows any proper subset of the CPUs (whether no-CBs CPUs or not) to be offlined. This commit also provides a fix for a locking bug spotted by Xie ChanglongX . Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- init/Kconfig | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 22616cd434bc..c8bd349eb638 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ config RCU_BOOST_DELAY Accept the default if unsure. config RCU_NOCB_CPU - bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" + bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL" depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU default n help @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ config RCU_NOCB_CPU callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. - Say Y here if you want reduced OS jitter on selected CPUs. + Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. Say N here if you are unsure. endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" -- cgit v1.2.3