11 Mar, 2008
1 commit
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The original preemptible-RCU patch put the choice between classic and
preemptible RCU into kernel/Kconfig.preempt, which resulted in build failures
on machines not supporting CONFIG_PREEMPT. This choice was therefore moved to
init/Kconfig, which worked, but placed the choice between classic and
preemptible RCU at the top level, a very obtuse choice indeed.This patch changes from the Kconfig "choice" mechanism to a pair of booleans,
only one of which (CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU) is user-visible, and is located in
kernel/Kconfig.preempt, where one would expect it to be. The other
(CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU) is in init/Kconfig so that it is available to all
architectures, hopefully avoiding build breakage. Thanks to Roman Zippel for
suggesting this approach.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Dipankar Sarma
Cc: Josh Triplett
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Roman Zippel
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jan, 2008
3 commits
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remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code.
this removes 160 lines of legacy code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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make PREEMPT_BKL the default.
precursor to removal of the !PREEMPT_BKL code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side
critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs
to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them
when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details
of this implementation can be found in this paper -http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf
and the article-
http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/
This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and
meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of
RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU
readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper).
This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations
and can be switched to at compiler.Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs.
[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ]
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
17 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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Kconfig.preempt is not included on some archs (for example, m68k). On those
archs, the Kconfig machinery complains that KVM selects an undefined symbol
PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS (which lives in Kconfig.preempt).So move the offending symbol into a Kconfig file which is included by
everyone.Cc: Roman Zippel
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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This adds a general mechanism whereby a task can request the scheduler to
notify it whenever it is preempted or scheduled back in. This allows the
task to swap any special-purpose registers like the fpu or Intel's VT
registers.Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
[ mingo@elte.hu: fixes, cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
09 May, 2007
1 commit
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Fix several typos in help text in Kconfig* files.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
26 Jun, 2005
3 commits
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This patch adds a new preemption model: 'Voluntary Kernel Preemption'. The
3 models can be selected from a new menu:(X) No Forced Preemption (Server)
( ) Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)
( ) Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)we still default to the stock (Server) preemption model.
Voluntary preemption works by adding a cond_resched()
(reschedule-if-needed) call to every might_sleep() check. It is lighter
than CONFIG_PREEMPT - at the cost of not having as tight latencies. It
represents a different latency/complexity/overhead tradeoff.It has no runtime impact at all if disabled. Here are size stats that show
how the various preemption models impact the kernel's size:text data bss dec hex filename
3618774 547184 179896 4345854 424ffe vmlinux.stock
3626406 547184 179896 4353486 426dce vmlinux.voluntary +0.2%
3748414 548640 179896 4476950 445016 vmlinux.preempt +3.5%voluntary-preempt is +0.2% of .text, preempt is +3.5%.
This feature has been tested for many months by lots of people (and it's
also included in the RHEL4 distribution and earlier variants were in Fedora
as well), and it's intended for users and distributions who dont want to
use full-blown CONFIG_PREEMPT for one reason or another.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The only sane way to clean up the current 3 lock_kernel() variants seems to
be to remove the spinlock-based BKL implementations altogether, and to keep
the semaphore-based one only. If we dont want to do that for whatever
reason then i'm afraid we have to live with the current complexity. (but
i'm open for other cleanup suggestions as well.)To explore this possibility we'll (at a minimum) have to know whether the
semaphore-based BKL works fine on plain SMP too. The patch below enables
this.The patch may make sense in isolation as well, as it might bring
performance benefits: code that would formerly spin on the BKL spinlock
will now schedule away and give up the CPU. It might introduce performance
regressions as well, if any performance-critical code uses the BKL heavily
and gets overscheduled due to the semaphore. I very much hope there is no
such performance-critical codepath left though.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This patch consolidates the CONFIG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL
preemption options into kernel/Kconfig.preempt. This, besides reducing
source-code, also enables more centralized tweaking of preemption related
options.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds