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# RCU-related configuration options
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menu "RCU Subsystem"
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config TREE_RCU
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bool
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default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
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help
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This option selects the RCU implementation that is
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designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
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thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
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smaller systems.
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config PREEMPT_RCU
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bool
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default y if PREEMPT
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help
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This option selects the RCU implementation that is
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designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
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thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
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is also required. It also scales down nicely to
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smaller systems.
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Select this option if you are unsure.
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config TINY_RCU
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bool
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default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
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help
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This option selects the RCU implementation that is
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designed for UP systems from which real-time response
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is not required. This option greatly reduces the
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memory footprint of RCU.
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config RCU_EXPERT
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bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
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default n
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help
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This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
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expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
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no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
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side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
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sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
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obscure RCU options to be set up.
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Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
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Say N if you are unsure.
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config SRCU
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bool
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help
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This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
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permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
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sections.
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config TINY_SRCU
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bool
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default y if SRCU && TINY_RCU
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help
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This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU.
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config TREE_SRCU
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bool
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default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU
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help
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This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU.
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config TASKS_RCU
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def_bool PREEMPT
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select SRCU
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help
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This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
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only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
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user-mode execution as quiescent states.
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config RCU_STALL_COMMON
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def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU )
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help
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This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
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the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
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the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
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making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
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config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST
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def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || TREE_SRCU )
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config CONTEXT_TRACKING
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bool
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config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
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bool "Force context tracking"
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depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
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default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
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help
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The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
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support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
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other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
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dynticks working.
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This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
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context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
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requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
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Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
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for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
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userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
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accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
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dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
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CPUs in the system.
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Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
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architecture backend for the context tracking.
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Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
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don't want in production.
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config RCU_FANOUT
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int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
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range 2 64 if 64BIT
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range 2 32 if !64BIT
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depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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default 64 if 64BIT
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default 32 if !64BIT
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help
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This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
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of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
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large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
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root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
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The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
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systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
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itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
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code paths on small(er) systems.
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Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
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Take the default if unsure.
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config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
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int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
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range 2 64 if 64BIT
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range 2 32 if !64BIT
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depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
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default 16
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help
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This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
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implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
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against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
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scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
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want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
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lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
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(hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
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value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
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number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
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initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
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are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
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skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
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leaf-level fanouts work well. That said, setting leaf-level
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fanout to a large number will likely cause problematic
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lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node structures unless
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you boot with the skew_tick kernel parameter.
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Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
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Select the maximum permissible value for large systems, but
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please understand that you may also need to set the skew_tick
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kernel boot parameter to avoid contention on the rcu_node
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structure's locks.
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Take the default if unsure.
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config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
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bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
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depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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default n
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help
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This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
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they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
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these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
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default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
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parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
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hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
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for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
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Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
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don't care about increased grace-period durations.
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Say N if you are unsure.
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config RCU_BOOST
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bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
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depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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default n
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help
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This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
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block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
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This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
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callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
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Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
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Say N here if you are unsure.
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config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
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int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
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range 0 3000
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depends on RCU_BOOST
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default 500
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help
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This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
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a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
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readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
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blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
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Accept the default if unsure.
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config RCU_NOCB_CPU
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bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
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depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
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depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
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default n
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help
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Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
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real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
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callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
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asymmetric multiprocessors.
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This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
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CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
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For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
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invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
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and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
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"s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
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on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
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between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
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to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
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Say N here if you are unsure.
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endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
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