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rcu: Advise most users not to enable RCU user mode

Discourage distros from enabling CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
because it brings overhead for no benefits yet.

It's not a useful feature on its own until we can
fully run an adaptive tickless kernel.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Frederic Weisbecker 13 years ago
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init/Kconfig

@@ -451,6 +451,12 @@ config RCU_USER_QS
 	  excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
 	  excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
 	  to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
 	  to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
 
 
+	  Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
+	  tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
+	  unnecessary overhead.
+
+	  If unsure say N
+
 config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
 config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
 	bool "Force userspace extended QS by default"
 	bool "Force userspace extended QS by default"
 	depends on RCU_USER_QS
 	depends on RCU_USER_QS
@@ -459,6 +465,12 @@ config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
 	  test this feature that treats userspace as an extended quiescent
 	  test this feature that treats userspace as an extended quiescent
 	  state until we have a real user like a full adaptive nohz option.
 	  state until we have a real user like a full adaptive nohz option.
 
 
+	  Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
+	  tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
+	  unnecessary overhead.
+
+	  If unsure say N
+
 config RCU_FANOUT
 config RCU_FANOUT
 	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
 	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
 	range 2 64 if 64BIT
 	range 2 64 if 64BIT