Commit d677124b authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Advise most users not to enable RCU user mode

Discourage distros from enabling CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
because it brings overhead for no benefits yet.

It's not a useful feature on its own until we can
fully run an adaptive tickless kernel.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent a4fbe35a
......@@ -451,6 +451,12 @@ config RCU_USER_QS
excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
unnecessary overhead.
If unsure say N
config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
bool "Force userspace extended QS by default"
depends on RCU_USER_QS
......@@ -459,6 +465,12 @@ config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
test this feature that treats userspace as an extended quiescent
state until we have a real user like a full adaptive nohz option.
Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
unnecessary overhead.
If unsure say N
config RCU_FANOUT
int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
range 2 64 if 64BIT
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