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Commit d2cf0854 authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Paul E. McKenney
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rcu/nocb: Allow empty "rcu_nocbs" kernel parameter



Allow the rcu_nocbs kernel parameter to be specified just by itself,
without specifying any CPUs.  This allows systems administrators to use
"rcu_nocbs" to specify that none of the CPUs are to be offloaded at boot
time, but than any of them may be offloaded at runtime via cpusets.

In contrast, if the "rcu_nocbs" or "nohz_full" kernel parameters are not
specified at all, then not only are none of the CPUs offloaded at boot,
none of them can be offloaded at runtime, either.

While in the area, modernize the description of the "rcuo" kthreads'
naming scheme.

Reviewed-by: default avatarNeeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tested-by: default avatarJuri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 2cf4528d
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