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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> | 2011-11-03 17:56:12 -0400 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-12-11 13:31:45 -0500 |
| commit | b807fbff3102bcac76ed9157d834dc20bb3d133b (patch) | |
| tree | a47a67bc636debb60b58ef1859d5282ebec244cd /init | |
| parent | 11dbaa8cb79a6e4a234a134898436f717a663f01 (diff) | |
rcu: Permit RCU_FAST_NO_HZ to be used by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
The new implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is compatible with preemptible
RCU, so this commit removes the Kconfig restriction that previously
prohibited this.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 43298f9810fb..82b6a4c675b2 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig | |||
| @@ -469,14 +469,14 @@ config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT | |||
| 469 | 469 | ||
| 470 | config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ | 470 | config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ |
| 471 | bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" | 471 | bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" |
| 472 | depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP | 472 | depends on NO_HZ && SMP |
| 473 | default n | 473 | default n |
| 474 | help | 474 | help |
| 475 | This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods | 475 | This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods |
| 476 | in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state | 476 | in order to allow CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state more |
| 477 | more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the | 477 | quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the overhead |
| 478 | overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems | 478 | of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems with |
| 479 | with large numbers of CPUs. | 479 | large numbers of CPUs. |
| 480 | 480 | ||
| 481 | Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly | 481 | Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly |
| 482 | if you have relatively few CPUs. | 482 | if you have relatively few CPUs. |
