rcu: enable rcu_normal_after_boot by default for RT

* rcu: enable rcu_normal_after_boot by default for RT
@ 2018-11-01 23:02 Paul E. McKenney
  2018-11-08 15:52 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Paul E. McKenney @ 2018-11-01 23:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lcapitulino, julia, bigeasy; +Cc: linux-rt-users, linux-kernel

> The forcing of an expedited grace period is an expensive and very
> RT-application unfriendly operation, as it forcibly preempts all running
> tasks on CPUs which are preventing the gp from expiring.
> 
> By default, as a policy decision, disable the expediting of grace
> periods (after boot) on configurations which enable PREEMPT_RT_FULL.
> 
> Suggested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

In case it matters:

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>

Alternatively, any reason that I should not pull this into -rcu?

							Thanx, Paul

> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c
> index f56c0fbdf22e..12027723abaf 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/update.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c
> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ extern int rcu_expedited; /* from sysctl */
>  module_param(rcu_expedited, int, 0);
>  extern int rcu_normal; /* from sysctl */
>  module_param(rcu_normal, int, 0);
> -static int rcu_normal_after_boot;
> +static int rcu_normal_after_boot = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL);
>  module_param(rcu_normal_after_boot, int, 0);
>  #endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
>  

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