Commit 8437bb84 authored by Ankur Arora's avatar Ankur Arora Committed by Boqun Feng
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rcu: limit PREEMPT_RCU configurations



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@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnkur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
parent a56ca561
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@@ -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