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    rcu: Optionally run grace-period kthreads at real-time priority · a94844b2
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    Recent testing has shown that under heavy load, running RCU's grace-period
    kthreads at real-time priority can improve performance (according to 0day
    test robot) and reduce the incidence of RCU CPU stall warnings.  However,
    most systems do just fine with the default non-realtime priorities for
    these kthreads, and it does not make sense to expose the entire user
    base to any risk stemming from this change, given that this change is
    of use only to a few users running extremely heavy workloads.
    
    Therefore, this commit allows users to specify realtime priorities
    for the grace-period kthreads, but leaves them running SCHED_OTHER
    by default.  The realtime priority may be specified at build time
    via the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig parameter, or at boot time via the
    rcutree.kthread_prio parameter.  Either way, 0 says to continue the
    default SCHED_OTHER behavior and values from 1-99 specify that priority
    of SCHED_FIFO behavior.  Note that a value of 0 is not permitted when
    the RCU_BOOST Kconfig parameter is specified.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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