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Commit b0afa0f0 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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rcu-tasks: Provide boot parameter to delay IPIs until late in grace period



This commit provides a rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter
that specifies how old the RCU tasks trace grace period must be before
the grace-period kthread starts sending IPIs.  This delay allows more
tasks to pass through rcu_tasks_qs() quiescent states, thus reducing
(or even eliminating) the number of IPIs that must be sent.

On a short rcutorture test setting this kernel boot parameter to HZ/2
resulted in zero IPIs for all 877 RCU-tasks trace grace periods that
elapsed during that test.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 88092d0c
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