Re: [GIT RFC PULL rcu/urgent] Prevent Kconfig from asking pointless questions

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Apr 21 2015 - 12:32:23 EST


On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:50:27AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:01:22 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > > Seem reasonable?
> > >
> > > Does chrt override the kthread_prio at run time? If so, then great.
> > > Otherwise, the sysadmin should still have a way to control their
> > > priorities of kernel threads (with few exceptions like the migration
> > > thread).
> >
> > Yep, RCU sets the prios only at boot time, so if they are set differently
> > at runtime, they should stay set differently. Unless chrt refuses to
> > work on kthreads or something. ;-)
>
> Great! This all sounds reasonable to me :-)

OK, will proceed as planned, then!

Thanx, Paul

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