From e260be673a15b6125068270e0216a3bfbfc12f87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:08:24 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- init/Kconfig | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) (limited to 'init') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3