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Bug 1427861 - rcu: Merge RCU-bh into RCU-preempt
Summary: rcu: Merge RCU-bh into RCU-preempt
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel-rt
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: John Kacur
QA Contact: Jiri Kastner
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Blocks: 1353018 1410158
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Reported: 2017-03-01 12:27 UTC by John Kacur
Modified: 2017-03-20 15:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-20 15:02:24 UTC
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Description John Kacur 2017-03-01 12:27:24 UTC
The Linux kernel has long RCU-bh read-side critical sections that
intolerably increase scheduling latency under mainline's RCU-bh rules,
which include RCU-bh read-side critical sections being non-preemptible.
This patch therefore arranges for RCU-bh to be implemented in terms of
RCU-preempt for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL=y.

This has the downside of defeating the purpose of RCU-bh, namely,
handling the case where the system is subjected to a network-based
denial-of-service attack that keeps at least one CPU doing full-time
softirq processing.  This issue will be fixed by a later commit.

The current commit will need some work to make it appropriate for
mainline use, for example, it needs to be extended to cover Tiny RCU.


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