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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> | 2012-12-03 08:16:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-03-26 08:04:48 -0700 |
| commit | a488985851cf2facd2227bd982cc2c251df56268 (patch) | |
| tree | 450d84d1fc01bd7997b651e47d2587fac5c6f085 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 09c7b890622d72b5e004cc249bbe610e8b928ddf (diff) | |
rcu: Distinguish "rcuo" kthreads by RCU flavor
Currently, the per-no-CBs-CPU kthreads are named "rcuo" followed by
the CPU number, for example, "rcuo". This is problematic given that
there are either two or three RCU flavors, each of which gets a per-CPU
kthread with exactly the same name. This commit therefore introduces
a one-letter abbreviation for each RCU flavor, namely 'b' for RCU-bh,
'p' for RCU-preempt, and 's' for RCU-sched. This abbreviation is used
to distinguish the "rcuo" kthreads, for example, for CPU 0 we would have
"rcuob/0", "rcuop/0", and "rcuos/0".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 4609e81dbc3..a17ba16c8fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2461,9 +2461,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. 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 "rcuoN" kthreads created for - that purpose. This reduces OS jitter on the + be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for + that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "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. |