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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2020-03-17 11:39:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2020-04-27 11:03:52 -0700 |
| commit | b0afa0f056676ffe0a7213818f09d2460adbcc16 (patch) | |
| tree | 4886fdc32d67b8b4ce347d07f65b3bb5d95b5709 /Documentation | |
| parent | 88092d0c99d7584d50cc8caadb8fa9ff8a1d4ea0 (diff) | |
rcu-tasks: Provide boot parameter to delay IPIs until late in grace period
This commit provides a rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter
that specifies how old the RCU tasks trace grace period must be before
the grace-period kthread starts sending IPIs. This delay allows more
tasks to pass through rcu_tasks_qs() quiescent states, thus reducing
(or even eliminating) the number of IPIs that must be sent.
On a short rcutorture test setting this kernel boot parameter to HZ/2
resulted in zero IPIs for all 877 RCU-tasks trace grace periods that
elapsed during that test.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index f2a93c8679e8..aaa867860433 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4286,6 +4286,13 @@ only normal grace-period primitives. No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. + rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] + Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will + avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning + of a given grace period. Setting a large + number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, + but lengthens grace periods. + rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning messages. Disable with a value less than or equal |