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Paul E. McKenney 6308f34775 rcu: Remove SRCU throttling
The code in srcu_gp_end() inserts a delay every 0x3ff grace periods in
order to prevent SRCU grace-period work from consuming an entire CPU
when there is a long sequence of expedited SRCU grace-period requests.
However, all of SRCU's grace-period work is carried out in workqueues,
which are in turn within kthreads, which are automatically throttled as
needed by the scheduler.  In particular, if there is plenty of idle time,
there is no point in throttling.

This commit therefore removes the expedited SRCU grace-period throttling.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-02-20 16:21:13 -08:00
arch unify {de,}mangle_poll(), get rid of kernel-side POLL... 2018-02-11 14:37:22 -08:00
block vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
certs
crypto vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
Documentation KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
drivers vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
firmware
fs vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
include unify {de,}mangle_poll(), get rid of kernel-side POLL... 2018-02-11 14:37:22 -08:00
init membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE 2018-02-05 21:35:03 +01:00
ipc vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
kernel rcu: Remove SRCU throttling 2018-02-20 16:21:13 -08:00
lib Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
LICENSES
mm vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
net vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
samples sample/bpf: fix erspan metadata 2018-02-06 11:32:49 -05:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
security vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
sound vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-02-09 15:34:18 -08:00
usr
virt vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.