rcu-tasks: Provide boot parameter to delay IPIs until late in grace period

This commit provides a rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter
that specifies how old the RCU tasks trace grace period must be before
the grace-period kthread starts sending IPIs.  This delay allows more
tasks to pass through rcu_tasks_qs() quiescent states, thus reducing
(or even eliminating) the number of IPIs that must be sent.

On a short rcutorture test setting this kernel boot parameter to HZ/2
resulted in zero IPIs for all 877 RCU-tasks trace grace periods that
elapsed during that test.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index f2a93c8679e8..aaa867860433 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4286,6 +4286,13 @@
 			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
 			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
 
+	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
+			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
+			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
+			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
+			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
+			but lengthens grace periods.
+
 	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
 			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
 			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal