Re: [PATCH v2] EXP rcu: Move expedited grace period (GP) work to RT kthread_worker

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 11:39:46AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 06:21:03 -0400
> Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > +       default !PREEMPT_RT && NR_CPUS <= 32  
> > 
> > What is the benefit of turning it off on PREEMPT_RT, even if
> > PREEMPT_RT does not use expedited GPs much post-boot? I would think in
> > the future if PREEMPT_RT ever uses expedited GPs, they would want this
> > feature even more. I'd rather be future-proof now as I don't see any
> > advantages of disabling it on !PREEMPT_RT (And a drawback that the fix
> > won't apply to those systems). Also will keep the config simple.
> 
> The default kthread priority is 1. This should not affect PREEMPT_RT, as
> PREEMPT_RT users are usually more concerned by the performance of their
> higher priority tasks. Priority 1 is not considered an issue.
> 
> I do not see why PREEMPT_RT is special here. Why was it singled out?

Because I didn't see the point of doing kthread_create_worker() to create
a pair of kthread_worker structuress that were never going to be used
in PREEMPT_RT kernels.

Or are PREEMPT_RT kernels no longer booting with rcupdate.rcu_normal?
Last I knew, they all did this to avoid IPI latencies from expedited
grace periods.  Has this changed?

							Thanx, Paul