linux-kernel - [PATCH rcu 09/11] rcu: limit PREEMPT

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Message-Id: <20250225035516.26443-10-boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:55:14 -0800
From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
To: rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
	Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@...nel.org>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
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	Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@...il.com>,	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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	linux-rt-devel@...ts.linux.dev,	Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 09/11] rcu: limit PREEMPT_RCU configurations

From: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>

PREEMPT_LAZY can be enabled stand-alone or alongside PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
which allows for dynamic switching of preemption models.

The choice of PREEMPT_RCU or not, however, is fixed at compile time.

Given that PREEMPT_RCU makes some trade-offs to optimize for latency
as opposed to throughput, configurations with limited preemption
might prefer the stronger forward-progress guarantees of PREEMPT_RCU=n.

Accordingly, explicitly limit PREEMPT_RCU=y to the latency oriented
preemption models: PREEMPT, PREEMPT_RT, and the runtime configurable
model PREEMPT_DYNAMIC.

This means the throughput oriented models, PREEMPT_NONE,
PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, and PREEMPT_LAZY will run with PREEMPT_RCU=n.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig
index e2206f3a070c..dd6251678e99 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ config TREE_RCU
 
 config PREEMPT_RCU
 	bool
-	default y if PREEMPTION
+	default y if (PREEMPT || PREEMPT_RT || PREEMPT_DYNAMIC)
 	select TREE_RCU
 	help
 	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
-- 
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)