From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
jiangshanlai@gmail.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,
fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, joel@joelfernandes.org,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/12] doc: Add rcutree.kthread_prio pointer to stallwarn.txt
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 15:37:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190801223747.15560-8-paulmck@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190801223708.GA14862@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adds mention of the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter
to the discussion of how high-priority real-time tasks can result in
RCU CPU stall warnings. (However, this does not necessarily help when
the high-priority real-time tasks are using dubious deadlines.)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
index 13e88fc00f01..f48f4621ccbc 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ o A CPU-bound real-time task in a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel that
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU case, you might see stall-warning
messages.
+ You can use the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter to
+ increase the scheduling priority of RCU's kthreads, which can
+ help avoid this problem. However, please note that doing this
+ can increase your system's context-switch rate and thus degrade
+ performance.
+
o A periodic interrupt whose handler takes longer than the time
interval between successive pairs of interrupts. This can
prevent RCU's kthreads and softirq handlers from running.
--
2.17.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-01 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-01 22:37 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/12] Miscellaneous fixes for v5.4 Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/12] lockdep: Make print_lock() address visible Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/12] time/tick-broadcast: Fix tick_broadcast_offline() lockdep complaint Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/12] rcu: Restore barrier() to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/12] rcu: Add kernel parameter to dump trace after RCU CPU stall warning Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/12] rcu: Add destroy_work_on_stack() to match INIT_WORK_ONSTACK() Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/12] srcu: Avoid srcutorture security-based pointer obfuscation Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/12] rcu: Change return type of rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread() Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/12] idle: Prevent late-arriving interrupts from disrupting offline Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/12] rcu: Remove redundant "if" condition from rcu_gp_is_expedited() Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/12] arm: Use common outgoing-CPU-notification code Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 22:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 12/12] rcu: Fix spelling mistake "greate"->"great" Paul E. McKenney
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20190801223747.15560-8-paulmck@linux.ibm.com \
--to=paulmck@linux.ibm.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=dhowells@redhat.com \
--cc=dipankar@in.ibm.com \
--cc=edumazet@google.com \
--cc=fweisbec@gmail.com \
--cc=jiangshanlai@gmail.com \
--cc=joel@joelfernandes.org \
--cc=josh@joshtriplett.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com \
--cc=mingo@kernel.org \
--cc=oleg@redhat.com \
--cc=peterz@infradead.org \
--cc=rcu@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=rostedt@goodmis.org \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome