From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757230AbbCCQhx (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:37:53 -0500 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:38473 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757165AbbCCQhu (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:37:50 -0500 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, bobby.prani@gmail.com, "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/6] documentation: Update rcutree.kthread_prio for grace-period kthread use Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 08:37:35 -0800 Message-Id: <1425400660-6380-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.5 In-Reply-To: <20150303163714.GA5427@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20150303163714.GA5427@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 15030316-0009-0000-0000-000009398AA4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Paul E. McKenney" Now that the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter also controls the priority of the grace-period kthreads, update the documentation to reflect this change. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index bfcb1a62a7b4..d913e3b4bf0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2991,11 +2991,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. value is one, and maximum value is HZ. rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] - Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU - per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also - used for the priority of the RCU boost threads - (rcub/N). Valid values are 1-99 and the default - is 1 (the least-favored priority). + Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU + kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for + the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) + and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, + rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is + set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 + (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when + RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and + the default is zero (non-realtime operation). rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which -- 1.8.1.5