1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
4 prompt "Preemption Model"
8 bool "No Forced Preemption (Server)"
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
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
20 config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
21 bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)"
22 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
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.
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
36 Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop system.
39 bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)"
40 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
42 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK if !ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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.
54 Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or
55 embedded system with latency requirements in the milliseconds
59 bool "Fully Preemptible Kernel (Real-Time)"
60 depends on EXPERT && ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
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 paths (entry code, scheduler, low
69 level interrupt handling) fully preemptible and brings most
70 execution contexts under scheduler control.
72 Select this if you are building a kernel for systems which
73 require real-time guarantees.