rcu: Advise most users not to enable RCU user mode
Discourage distros from enabling CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS because it brings overhead for no benefits yet. It's not a useful feature on its own until we can fully run an adaptive tickless kernel. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
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to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
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Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
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tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
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unnecessary overhead.
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If unsure say N
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config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
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bool "Force userspace extended QS by default"
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depends on RCU_USER_QS
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test this feature that treats userspace as an extended quiescent
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state until we have a real user like a full adaptive nohz option.
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Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
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tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
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unnecessary overhead.
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If unsure say N
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config RCU_FANOUT
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int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
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range 2 64 if 64BIT
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