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1
2choice
3 prompt "Preemption Model"
4 default PREEMPT_NONE
5
6config PREEMPT_NONE
7 bool "No Forced Preemption (Server)"
8 help
9 This is the traditional Linux preemption model, geared towards
10 throughput. It will still provide good latencies most of the
11 time, but there are no guarantees and occasional longer delays
12 are possible.
13
14 Select this option if you are building a kernel for a server or
15 scientific/computation system, or if you want to maximize the
16 raw processing power of the kernel, irrespective of scheduling
17 latencies.
18
19config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
20 bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)"
21 help
22 This option reduces the latency of the kernel by adding more
23 "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
24 preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum
25 latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions,
26 at the cost of slightly lower throughput.
27
28 This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a
29 low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it
30 is in kernel mode executing a system call. This allows
31 applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the system is
32 under load.
33
34 Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop system.
35
36config PREEMPT
37 bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)"
38 select PREEMPT_COUNT
39 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK if !ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
40 help
41 This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making
42 all kernel code (that is not executing in a critical section)
43 preemptible. This allows reaction to interactive events by
44 permitting a low priority process to be preempted involuntarily
45 even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would
46 otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point.
47 This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the
48 system is under load, at the cost of slightly lower throughput
49 and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code.
50
51 Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or
52 embedded system with latency requirements in the milliseconds
53 range.
54
55endchoice
56
57config PREEMPT_COUNT
58
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2
3choice
4 prompt "Preemption Model"
5 default PREEMPT_NONE
6
7config PREEMPT_NONE
8 bool "No Forced Preemption (Server)"
9 help
10 This is the traditional Linux preemption model, geared towards
11 throughput. It will still provide good latencies most of the
12 time, but there are no guarantees and occasional longer delays
13 are possible.
14
15 Select this option if you are building a kernel for a server or
16 scientific/computation system, or if you want to maximize the
17 raw processing power of the kernel, irrespective of scheduling
18 latencies.
19
20config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
21 bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)"
22 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
23 help
24 This option reduces the latency of the kernel by adding more
25 "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
26 preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum
27 latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions,
28 at the cost of slightly lower throughput.
29
30 This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a
31 low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it
32 is in kernel mode executing a system call. This allows
33 applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the system is
34 under load.
35
36 Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop system.
37
38config PREEMPT
39 bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)"
40 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
41 select PREEMPTION
42 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK if !ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
43 help
44 This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making
45 all kernel code (that is not executing in a critical section)
46 preemptible. This allows reaction to interactive events by
47 permitting a low priority process to be preempted involuntarily
48 even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would
49 otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point.
50 This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the
51 system is under load, at the cost of slightly lower throughput
52 and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code.
53
54 Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or
55 embedded system with latency requirements in the milliseconds
56 range.
57
58config PREEMPT_RT
59 bool "Fully Preemptible Kernel (Real-Time)"
60 depends on EXPERT && ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
61 select PREEMPTION
62 help
63 This option turns the kernel into a real-time kernel by replacing
64 various locking primitives (spinlocks, rwlocks, etc.) with
65 preemptible priority-inheritance aware variants, enforcing
66 interrupt threading and introducing mechanisms to break up long
67 non-preemptible sections. This makes the kernel, except for very
68 low level and critical code pathes (entry code, scheduler, low
69 level interrupt handling) fully preemptible and brings most
70 execution contexts under scheduler control.
71
72 Select this if you are building a kernel for systems which
73 require real-time guarantees.
74
75endchoice
76
77config PREEMPT_COUNT
78 bool
79
80config PREEMPTION
81 bool
82 select PREEMPT_COUNT