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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbecker@suse.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 5/5] kernel: drop PREEMPT_NONE compile time option
Date: Fri,  9 Oct 2020 14:29:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201009122926.29962-6-mhocko@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201009122926.29962-1-mhocko@kernel.org>

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Now that preempt_mode command line parameter supports both preempt_none
and preempt_voluntary we do not necessarily need a config option for
this preemption mode and we can reduce the overall config space a bit.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
---
 kernel/Kconfig.preempt | 21 ++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
index e142f36dd429..e19b7d3a8d3c 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
@@ -2,23 +2,10 @@
 
 choice
 	prompt "Preemption Model"
-	default PREEMPT_NONE
-
-config PREEMPT_NONE
-	bool "No Forced Preemption (Server)"
-	help
-	  This is the traditional Linux preemption model, geared towards
-	  throughput. It will still provide good latencies most of the
-	  time, but there are no guarantees and occasional longer delays
-	  are possible.
-
-	  Select this option if you are building a kernel for a server or
-	  scientific/computation system, or if you want to maximize the
-	  raw processing power of the kernel, irrespective of scheduling
-	  latencies.
+	default PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
 
 config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
-	bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)"
+	bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Throughput oriented workloads)"
 	help
 	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by adding more
 	  "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
@@ -35,7 +22,7 @@ config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
 	  Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop system.
 
 config PREEMPT
-	bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)"
+	bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency oriented workloads)"
 	depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
 	select PREEMPTION
 	select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK if !ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
@@ -75,7 +62,7 @@ endchoice
 
 config PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
 	bool "Allow boot time preemption model selection"
-	depends on PREEMPT_NONE || PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
+	depends on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
 	help
 	  This option allows to define the preemption model on the kernel
 	  command line parameter and thus override the default preemption
-- 
2.28.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-09 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-07 12:04 [RFC PATCH] kernel: allow to configure PREEMPT_NONE, PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY on kernel command line Michal Hocko
2020-10-07 12:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-07 12:29   ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-07 13:01     ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-07 12:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-07 12:35   ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-09  9:47     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09 10:14       ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 10:20         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09 10:48           ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 11:17             ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 11:26               ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 11:39             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09  9:12 ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-09  9:42   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09 10:10     ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 10:14       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09 10:37         ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 11:42           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09 12:29 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] allow overriding default preempt mode from " Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 12:29   ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] jump_label: split out declaration parts into its own headers Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 12:29   ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/5] kernel: allow to configure PREEMPT_NONE, PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY on kernel command line Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 12:29   ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] kernel: ARCH_NO_PREEMPT shouldn't exclude PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 12:29   ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/5] kernel: introduce CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 12:29   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2020-10-09 12:50   ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] allow overriding default preempt mode from command line Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09 13:03     ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-09 13:22       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09 17:45   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-27 12:22     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-27 12:28       ` Peter Zijlstra

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