From a94844b22a2e2b9155bbc0878c507850477221c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 07:37:48 -0800 Subject: rcu: Optionally run grace-period kthreads at real-time priority Recent testing has shown that under heavy load, running RCU's grace-period kthreads at real-time priority can improve performance (according to 0day test robot) and reduce the incidence of RCU CPU stall warnings. However, most systems do just fine with the default non-realtime priorities for these kthreads, and it does not make sense to expose the entire user base to any risk stemming from this change, given that this change is of use only to a few users running extremely heavy workloads. Therefore, this commit allows users to specify realtime priorities for the grace-period kthreads, but leaves them running SCHED_OTHER by default. The realtime priority may be specified at build time via the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig parameter, or at boot time via the rcutree.kthread_prio parameter. Either way, 0 says to continue the default SCHED_OTHER behavior and values from 1-99 specify that priority of SCHED_FIFO behavior. Note that a value of 0 is not permitted when the RCU_BOOST Kconfig parameter is specified. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- init/Kconfig | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 9afb971497f4..d3ee66a6990f 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -668,9 +668,10 @@ config RCU_BOOST config RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads" - range 1 99 - depends on RCU_BOOST - default 1 + range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST + range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST + default 1 if RCU_BOOST + default 0 if !RCU_BOOST help This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value -- cgit v1.2.3