From: Michal Hocko <mho...@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 <pet...@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@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