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ec8f24b7 1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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2#
3# RCU-related configuration options
4#
5
6menu "RCU Subsystem"
7
8config TREE_RCU
9 bool
b3e627d3 10 default y if SMP
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11 help
12 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
13 designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
14 thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
15 smaller systems.
16
17config PREEMPT_RCU
18 bool
01b1d88b 19 default y if PREEMPTION
b3e627d3 20 select TREE_RCU
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21 help
22 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
23 designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
24 thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
25 is also required. It also scales down nicely to
26 smaller systems.
27
28 Select this option if you are unsure.
29
30config TINY_RCU
31 bool
01b1d88b 32 default y if !PREEMPTION && !SMP
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33 help
34 This option selects the RCU implementation that is
35 designed for UP systems from which real-time response
36 is not required. This option greatly reduces the
37 memory footprint of RCU.
38
39config RCU_EXPERT
40 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
41 default n
42 help
43 This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
44 expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
45 no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
46 side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
47 sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
48 obscure RCU options to be set up.
49
50 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
51
52 Say N if you are unsure.
53
54config SRCU
55 bool
56 help
57 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
58 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
59 sections.
60
61config TINY_SRCU
62 bool
63 default y if SRCU && TINY_RCU
64 help
65 This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU.
66
67config TREE_SRCU
68 bool
69 default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU
70 help
71 This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU.
72
5873b8a9 73config TASKS_RCU_GENERIC
d5f177d3 74 def_bool TASKS_RCU || TASKS_RUDE_RCU || TASKS_TRACE_RCU
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75 select SRCU
76 help
77 This option enables generic infrastructure code supporting
78 task-based RCU implementations. Not for manual selection.
79
0af92d46 80config TASKS_RCU
01b1d88b 81 def_bool PREEMPTION
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82 help
83 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
84 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
5873b8a9 85 user-mode execution as quiescent states. Not for manual selection.
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87config TASKS_RUDE_RCU
88 def_bool 0
89 help
90 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
91 only context switch (including preemption) and user-mode
92 execution as quiescent states. It forces IPIs and context
93 switches on all online CPUs, including idle ones, so use
94 with caution.
95
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96config TASKS_TRACE_RCU
97 def_bool 0
98 help
99 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
100 explicit rcu_read_lock_trace() read-side markers, and allows
101 these readers to appear in the idle loop as well as on the CPU
102 hotplug code paths. It can force IPIs on online CPUs, including
103 idle ones, so use with caution.
104
0af92d46 105config RCU_STALL_COMMON
b3e627d3 106 def_bool TREE_RCU
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107 help
108 This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
109 the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
110 the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
111 making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
112
113config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST
b3e627d3 114 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_SRCU )
0af92d46 115
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116config RCU_FANOUT
117 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
118 range 2 64 if 64BIT
119 range 2 32 if !64BIT
b3e627d3 120 depends on TREE_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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121 default 64 if 64BIT
122 default 32 if !64BIT
123 help
124 This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
125 of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
126 large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
127 root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
128 The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
129 systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
130 itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
131 code paths on small(er) systems.
132
133 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
134 Take the default if unsure.
135
136config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
137 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
138 range 2 64 if 64BIT
139 range 2 32 if !64BIT
b3e627d3 140 depends on TREE_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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141 default 16
142 help
143 This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
144 implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
145 against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
146 scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
147 want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
148 lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
149 (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
150 value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
151 number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
152 initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
153 are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
154 skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
155 leaf-level fanouts work well. That said, setting leaf-level
156 fanout to a large number will likely cause problematic
157 lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node structures unless
158 you boot with the skew_tick kernel parameter.
159
160 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
161
162 Select the maximum permissible value for large systems, but
163 please understand that you may also need to set the skew_tick
164 kernel boot parameter to avoid contention on the rcu_node
165 structure's locks.
166
167 Take the default if unsure.
168
169config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
170 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
171 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
172 default n
173 help
174 This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
175 they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
176 these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
177 default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
178 parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
179 hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
180 for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
181
182 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
183 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
184
185 Say N if you are unsure.
186
187config RCU_BOOST
188 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
189 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
190 default n
191 help
192 This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
193 block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
194 This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
8c1cf2da 195 callback invocation.
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197 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
198 Say N here if you are unsure.
199
200config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
201 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
202 range 0 3000
203 depends on RCU_BOOST
204 default 500
205 help
206 This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
207 a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
208 readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
209 blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
210
211 Accept the default if unsure.
212
213config RCU_NOCB_CPU
214 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
b3e627d3 215 depends on TREE_RCU
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216 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
217 default n
218 help
219 Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
220 real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
221 callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
222 asymmetric multiprocessors.
223
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224 This option offloads callback invocation from the set of CPUs
225 specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. For each
226 such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to invoke
227 callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, and where
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228 the "p" for RCU-preempt (PREEMPTION kernels) and "s" for RCU-sched
229 (!PREEMPTION kernels). Nothing prevents this kthread from running
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230 on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
231 between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
232 to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
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234 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
235 Say N here if you are unsure.
236
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237config TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB
238 bool "Tasks Trace RCU readers use memory barriers in user and idle"
239 depends on RCU_EXPERT
240 default PREEMPT_RT || NR_CPUS < 8
241 help
242 Use this option to further reduce the number of IPIs sent
243 to CPUs executing in userspace or idle during tasks trace
244 RCU grace periods. Given that a reasonable setting of
245 the rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter
246 eliminates such IPIs for many workloads, proper setting
247 of this Kconfig option is important mostly for aggressive
248 real-time installations and for battery-powered devices,
249 hence the default chosen above.
250
251 Say Y here if you hate IPIs.
252 Say N here if you hate read-side memory barriers.
253 Take the default if you are unsure.
254
0af92d46 255endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"