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Message-ID: <889e736a-c468-4600-ae1d-84aaa7330078@paulmck-laptop>
Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2023 21:37:01 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>
Cc:     RCU <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
        Neeraj upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@....com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...y.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] doc: Add rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp to
 kernel-parameters.txt

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 02:12:54PM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> This commit adds rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp description
> to the kernel-parameters.txt file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>

Looks good aside from wordsmithing, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 03a4bdb7512b..a9681d2492d3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -5009,6 +5009,20 @@
>  			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
>  			to zero.
>  
> +	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
> +			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
> +			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
> +			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
> +			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
> +			normal grace period.
> +
> +			How to enable it:
> +
> +			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
> +			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
> +
> +			Default is 0.
> +
>  	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
>  			Measure performance of asynchronous
>  			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 

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