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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-03 23:40:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-03 23:40:38 (GMT) |
| commit | 281422869942c19f05a08d4017c633d08d390938 (patch) | |
| tree | 78e1fb9155e3e82697f96ce04e7b40e8f7c5147c /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | f5a8160c1e055c0fd8d16a5b3ac97c638365b0db (diff) | |
| parent | b33e18f61bd18227a456016a77b1a968f5bc1d65 (diff) | |
| download | linux-281422869942c19f05a08d4017c633d08d390938.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Improvements to expedited grace periods (Paul E McKenney)
- Performance improvements to and locktorture tests for percpu-rwsem
(Oleg Nesterov, Paul E McKenney)
- Torture-test changes (Paul E McKenney, Davidlohr Bueso)
- Documentation updates (Paul E McKenney)
- Miscellaneous fixes (Paul E McKenney, Boqun Feng, Oleg Nesterov,
Patrick Marlier)"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
fs/writeback, rcu: Don't use list_entry_rcu() for pointer offsetting in bdi_split_work_to_wbs()
rcu: Better hotplug handling for synchronize_sched_expedited()
rcu: Enable stall warnings for synchronize_rcu_expedited()
rcu: Add tasks to expedited stall-warning messages
rcu: Add online/offline info to expedited stall warning message
rcu: Consolidate expedited CPU selection
rcu: Prepare for consolidating expedited CPU selection
cpu: Remove try_get_online_cpus()
rcu: Stop excluding CPU hotplug in synchronize_sched_expedited()
rcu: Stop silencing lockdep false positive for expedited grace periods
rcu: Switch synchronize_sched_expedited() to IPI
locktorture: Fix module unwind when bad torture_type specified
torture: Forgive non-plural arguments
rcutorture: Fix unused-function warning for torturing_tasks()
rcutorture: Fix module unwind when bad torture_type specified
rcu_sync: Cleanup the CONFIG_PROVE_RCU checks
locking/percpu-rwsem: Clean up the lockdep annotations in percpu_down_read()
locking/percpu-rwsem: Fix the comments outdated by rcu_sync
locking/percpu-rwsem: Make use of the rcu_sync infrastructure
locking/percpu-rwsem: Make percpu_free_rwsem() after kzalloc() safe
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 50fc09b..046832e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3089,9 +3089,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. cache-to-cache transfer latencies. rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] - Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each - leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large - systems. + Change the number of CPUs assigned to each + leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very + large systems, which will choose the value 64, + and for NUMA systems with large remote-access + latencies, which will choose a value aligned + with the appropriate hardware boundaries. rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] Set required age in jiffies for a |