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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-08-22 13:56:52 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-23 10:32:40 +0200
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rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef, empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics). These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c for this purpose. This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic hierarchical RCU. Perhaps more important, this new algorithm has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new algorithm. The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations over the past 18 months. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig22
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 25373cf32672..f88da2d1c1fb 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -335,11 +335,20 @@ config PREEMPT_RCU
now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
+config TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
+ bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU"
+ depends on PREEMPT
+ help
+ This option selects the RCU implementation that is
+ designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
+ thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
+ is also required.
+
endchoice
config RCU_TRACE
bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
- depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
+ depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
help
This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
@@ -351,7 +360,7 @@ config RCU_FANOUT
int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
range 2 64 if 64BIT
range 2 32 if !64BIT
- depends on TREE_RCU
+ depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
default 64 if 64BIT
default 32 if !64BIT
help
@@ -366,7 +375,7 @@ config RCU_FANOUT
config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
- depends on TREE_RCU
+ depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
default n
help
This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
@@ -379,11 +388,12 @@ config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
Say N if unsure.
config TREE_RCU_TRACE
- def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU
+ def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
select DEBUG_FS
help
- This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation,
- permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
+ This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and
+ TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to
+ trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
config PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE
def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU