1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
3 # RCU-related configuration options
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
19 default y if PREEMPTION
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
28 Select this option if you are unsure.
32 default y if !PREEMPTION && !SMP
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.
40 bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
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.
50 Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
52 Say N if you are unsure.
57 This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
58 permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
63 default y if SRCU && TINY_RCU
65 This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU.
69 default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU
71 This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU.
73 config TASKS_RCU_GENERIC
74 def_bool TASKS_RCU || TASKS_RUDE_RCU || TASKS_TRACE_RCU
77 This option enables generic infrastructure code supporting
78 task-based RCU implementations. Not for manual selection.
83 This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
84 only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
85 user-mode execution as quiescent states. Not for manual selection.
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
96 config TASKS_TRACE_RCU
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.
105 config RCU_STALL_COMMON
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.
113 config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST
114 def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_SRCU )
117 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
120 depends on TREE_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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.
133 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
134 Take the default if unsure.
136 config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
137 int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
140 depends on TREE_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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.
160 Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
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
167 Take the default if unsure.
169 config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
170 bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
171 depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
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().
182 Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
183 don't care about increased grace-period durations.
185 Say N if you are unsure.
188 bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
189 depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
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
197 Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
198 Say N here if you are unsure.
200 config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
201 int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
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.
211 Accept the default if unsure.
214 bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
216 depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
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.
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
228 the "p" for RCU-preempt (PREEMPTION kernels) and "s" for RCU-sched
229 (!PREEMPTION kernels). Nothing prevents this kthread from running
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.
234 Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
235 Say N here if you are unsure.
237 config 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
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.
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.
255 endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"