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PREEMPT_LAZY can be enabled stand-alone or alongside PREEMPT_DYNAMIC which allows for dynamic switching of preemption models. The choice of PREEMPT_RCU or not, however, is fixed at compile time. Given that PREEMPT_RCU makes some trade-offs to optimize for latency as opposed to throughput, configurations with limited preemption might prefer the stronger forward-progress guarantees of PREEMPT_RCU=n. Accordingly, explicitly limit PREEMPT_RCU=y to the latency oriented preemption models: PREEMPT, PREEMPT_RT, and the runtime configurable model PREEMPT_DYNAMIC. This means the throughput oriented models, PREEMPT_NONE, PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, and PREEMPT_LAZY will run with PREEMPT_RCU=n. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
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.