From 687d7a960aea46e016182c7ce346d62c4dbd0366 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:52:40 -0700 Subject: rcu: restrict TREE_RCU to SMP builds with !PREEMPT Because both TINY_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU have been in mainline for several releases, it is time to restrict the use of TREE_RCU to SMP non-preemptible systems. This reduces testing/validation effort. This commit is a first step towards driving the selection of RCU implementation directly off of the SMP and PREEMPT configuration parameters. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- init/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 2de5b1cbadd9..79ac52bef4ce 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ choice config TREE_RCU bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" + depends on !PREEMPT && SMP help This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or -- cgit v1.2.3 From 4d87ffadbba88105f33271bef5f2c79366c6a4e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 17:31:12 -0700 Subject: rcu: Fix RCU_FANOUT help message Commit cf244dc01bf68 added a fourth level to the TREE_RCU hierarchy, but the RCU_FANOUT help message still said "cube root". This commit fixes this to "fourth root" and also emphasizes that production systems are well-served by the default. (Stress-testing RCU itself uses small RCU_FANOUT values in order to test large-system code paths on small(er) systems.) Located-by: John Kacur Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- init/Kconfig | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 79ac52bef4ce..dbc08baad77e 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -388,9 +388,12 @@ config RCU_FANOUT help This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with - large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube - root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit - systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. + large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth + root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. + The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production + systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation + itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system + code paths on small(er) systems. Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. Take the default if unsure. -- cgit v1.2.3 From a57eb940d130477a799dfb24a570ee04979c0f7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:49:16 -0700 Subject: rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of preemptible RCU. This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies processing. This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers. The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience. Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183). As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. Of course, for non-real-time workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better. CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 6170 825 28 7023 kernel/rcutree.o ---- 7026 Total CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 2081 81 8 2170 kernel/rcutiny.o ---- 2183 Total CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible) text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 719 25 0 744 kernel/rcutiny.o --- 757 Total Requested-by: Loïc Minier Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- init/Kconfig | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index dbc08baad77e..a619a1ac7f4c 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ config TREE_RCU smaller systems. config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU - bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU" + bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU" depends on PREEMPT help This option selects the RCU implementation that is @@ -366,8 +366,22 @@ config TINY_RCU is not required. This option greatly reduces the memory footprint of RCU. +config TINY_PREEMPT_RCU + bool "Preemptible UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" + depends on !SMP && PREEMPT + help + This option selects the RCU implementation that is designed + for real-time UP systems. This option greatly reduces the + memory footprint of RCU. + endchoice +config PREEMPT_RCU + def_bool ( TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_PREEMPT_RCU ) + help + This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between + the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations. + config RCU_TRACE bool "Enable tracing for RCU" depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU -- cgit v1.2.3