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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 33 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 8b5da10f932e..3483ac7f019d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4500,10 +4500,6 @@ on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to disable more aggressive help enlistment. - rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] - Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have - RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). - rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than @@ -4614,8 +4610,12 @@ in seconds. rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] - Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing + Specifies the number of kthreads to be used + for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing for the types of RCU supporting this notion. + Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or + greater than the number of CPUs cause the number + of CPUs to be used. rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning @@ -4816,6 +4816,29 @@ period to instead use normal non-expedited grace-period processing. + rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] + Set the maximum number of callbacks present + at the beginning of a grace period that allows + the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using + a single callback queue. This switching only + occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is + set to the default value of -1. + + rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] + Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time + lock-contention events per jiffy required to + cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU + callback queuing. This switching only occurs + when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to + the default value of -1. + + rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] + Set the number of callback queues to use for the + RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default + of -1 allows this to be automatically (and + dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended + for use in testing. + rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst index 5e51ee5b0358..e4a5fc26f1a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Do at least one of the following: 2. Enable RCU to do its processing remotely via dyntick-idle by doing all of the following: - a. Build with CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y. + a. Build with CONFIG_NO_HZ=y. b. Ensure that the CPU goes idle frequently, allowing other CPUs to detect that it has passed through an RCU quiescent state. If the kernel is built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, |