Re: [PATCH 4/4] nohz: New option to force all CPUs in full dynticksrange

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Apr 11 2013 - 11:54:12 EST


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:37:21AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:19:59PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 02:57:18PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > I think we could simplify things quite a bit if we either
> > >
> > > 1. Add any cpus specified with nohz_full/extended=xxx to
> > > rcu_nocb. No check is then necessary anymore.
> >
> > Yeah in the long term we probably want that indeed.
>
> Or just build with RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y to unconditionally offload all
> the CPUs when using nohz_extended.

If there is no performance issue with that I'm all for it.
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