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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h | 10 |
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 9725c546a0d4..8b5da10f932e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4343,19 +4343,30 @@ Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. - rcu_nocbs= [KNL] - The argument is a cpu list, as described above. - - In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set - the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. - Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be - offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that - purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and - "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. - This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, - which can be useful for HPC and real-time - workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency - for asymmetric multiprocessors. + rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] + [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, + as described above. + + In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, + enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents + such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in + softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU + callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" + kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is + "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" + for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and + "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on + the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC + and real-time workloads. It can also improve + energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. + + If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified + list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. + + Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist + arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to + no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be + toggled at runtime via cpusets. rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h index f580a6b2e74e..0c1802ce4764 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h @@ -66,14 +66,16 @@ static bool rcu_nocb_is_setup; static int __init rcu_nocb_setup(char *str) { alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&rcu_nocb_mask); - if (cpulist_parse(str, rcu_nocb_mask)) { - pr_warn("rcu_nocbs= bad CPU range, all CPUs set\n"); - cpumask_setall(rcu_nocb_mask); + if (*str == '=') { + if (cpulist_parse(++str, rcu_nocb_mask)) { + pr_warn("rcu_nocbs= bad CPU range, all CPUs set\n"); + cpumask_setall(rcu_nocb_mask); + } } rcu_nocb_is_setup = true; return 1; } -__setup("rcu_nocbs=", rcu_nocb_setup); +__setup("rcu_nocbs", rcu_nocb_setup); static int __init parse_rcu_nocb_poll(char *arg) { |