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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-25 21:08:24 +0100
commite260be673a15b6125068270e0216a3bfbfc12f87 (patch)
treef50760606d395bf6faa9e865f814761a3c88d32c /init
parente0ecfa7917cafe72f4a75f87e8bb5d8d51dc534f (diff)
Preempt-RCU: implementation
This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details of this implementation can be found in this paper - http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf and the article- http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/ This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper). This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations and can be switched to at compiler. Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ] Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f5becd2a12f..0eda68f0ad5 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -763,3 +763,31 @@ source "block/Kconfig"
config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
bool
+
+choice
+ prompt "RCU implementation type:"
+ default CLASSIC_RCU
+
+config CLASSIC_RCU
+ bool "Classic RCU"
+ help
+ This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
+ designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
+ systems.
+
+ Say Y if you are unsure.
+
+config PREEMPT_RCU
+ bool "Preemptible RCU"
+ depends on PREEMPT
+ help
+ This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
+ RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
+ this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
+ preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
+ now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
+ remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
+
+ Say N if you are unsure.
+
+endchoice