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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-21 19:26:51 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-21 19:26:51 -0700 |
commit | 226da0dbc84ed97f448523e2a4cb91c27fa68ed9 (patch) | |
tree | 3969a9f612cd5596747ecde2066e65eacbab7d2e /init | |
parent | 5ec29e3149d800e6db83c1b6ff441daf319cbbe2 (diff) | |
parent | 2d84e023cb5ec00403ff5d447533c6fd58fcc7ff (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This is the v3.5 RCU tree from Paul E. McKenney:
1) A set of improvements and fixes to the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ feature (with
more on the way for 3.6). Posted to LKML:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/324 (commits 1-3 and 5),
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/611 (commit 4),
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/390 (commit 6), and
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/4/410 (commit 7, combined with
the other commits for the convenience of the tester).
2) Changes to make rcu_barrier() avoid disrupting execution of CPUs
that have no RCU callbacks. Posted to LKML:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/322.
3) A couple of commits that improve the efficiency of the interaction
between preemptible RCU and the scheduler, these two being all that
survived an abortive attempt to allow preemptible RCU's
__rcu_read_lock() to be inlined. The full set was posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/14/143, and the first and third patches
of that set remain.
4) Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, which includes
call_srcu() and srcu_barrier(). A major feature of this new
implementation is that synchronize_srcu() no longer disturbs the
execution of other CPUs. This work is based on earlier
implementations by Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney. Posted to
LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/82.
5) A number of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements which were
posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/353 with
subsequent updates posted to LKML."
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
rcu: Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive
rcu: Explicitly initialize RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle timer migration
rcu: Update RCU maintainership
rcu: Make exit_rcu() more precise and consolidate
rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation
rcu: Ensure that RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timers expire on correct CPU
rcu: Add rcutorture test for call_srcu()
rcu: Implement per-domain single-threaded call_srcu() state machine
rcu: Use single value to handle expedited SRCU grace periods
rcu: Improve srcu_readers_active_idx()'s cache locality
rcu: Remove unused srcu_barrier()
rcu: Implement a variant of Peter's SRCU algorithm
rcu: Improve SRCU's wait_idx() comments
rcu: Flip ->completed only once per SRCU grace period
rcu: Increment upper bit only for srcu_read_lock()
rcu: Remove fast check path from __synchronize_srcu()
rcu: Direct algorithmic SRCU implementation
rcu: Introduce rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier()
timer: Fix mod_timer_pinned() header comment
...
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 50 |
1 files changed, 46 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 6cfd71d06463..6d18ef8071b5 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -458,6 +458,33 @@ config RCU_FANOUT Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. Take the default if unsure. +config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF + int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" + range 2 RCU_FANOUT if 64BIT + range 2 RCU_FANOUT if !64BIT + depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU + default 16 + help + This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical + implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses + against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their + scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will + want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps + lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems + (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this + value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the + number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period + initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus + are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to + skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large + leaf-level fanouts work well. + + Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. + + Select the maximum permissible value for large systems. + + Take the default if unsure. + config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU @@ -515,10 +542,25 @@ config RCU_BOOST_PRIO depends on RCU_BOOST default 1 help - This option specifies the real-time priority to which preempted - RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working with CPU-bound - real-time applications, you should specify a priority higher then - the highest-priority CPU-bound application. + This option specifies the real-time priority to which long-term + preempted RCU readers are to be boosted. If you are working + with a real-time application that has one or more CPU-bound + threads running at a real-time priority level, you should set + RCU_BOOST_PRIO to a priority higher then the highest-priority + real-time CPU-bound thread. The default RCU_BOOST_PRIO value + of 1 is appropriate in the common case, which is real-time + applications that do not have any CPU-bound threads. + + Some real-time applications might not have a single real-time + thread that saturates a given CPU, but instead might have + multiple real-time threads that, taken together, fully utilize + that CPU. In this case, you should set RCU_BOOST_PRIO to + a priority higher than the lowest-priority thread that is + conspiring to prevent the CPU from running any non-real-time + tasks. For example, if one thread at priority 10 and another + thread at priority 5 are between themselves fully consuming + the CPU time on a given CPU, then RCU_BOOST_PRIO should be + set to priority 6 or higher. Specify the real-time priority, or take the default if unsure. |