zephyr/kernel/Kconfig.smp

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# Copyright (c) 2024 Intel Corp.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#
menu "SMP Options"
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multiprocessing support"
depends on USE_SWITCH
depends on !ATOMIC_OPERATIONS_C
help
When true, kernel will be built with SMP support, allowing
more than one CPU to schedule Zephyr tasks at a time.
config USE_SWITCH
bool "Use new-style _arch_switch instead of arch_swap"
depends on USE_SWITCH_SUPPORTED
help
The _arch_switch() API is a lower level context switching
primitive than the original arch_swap mechanism. It is required
for an SMP-aware scheduler, or if the architecture does not
provide arch_swap. In uniprocess situations where the
architecture provides both, _arch_switch incurs more somewhat
overhead and may be slower.
config USE_SWITCH_SUPPORTED
bool
help
Indicates whether _arch_switch() API is supported by the
currently enabled platform. This option should be selected by
platforms that implement it.
config SMP_BOOT_DELAY
bool "Delay booting secondary cores"
depends on SMP
help
By default Zephyr will boot all available CPUs during start up.
Select this option to skip this and allow custom code
(architecture/SoC/board/application) to boot secondary CPUs at
a later time.
config MP_NUM_CPUS
int "Number of CPUs/cores [DEPRECATED]"
default MP_MAX_NUM_CPUS
range 1 12
help
This is deprecated, please use MP_MAX_NUM_CPUS instead.
config MP_MAX_NUM_CPUS
int "Maximum number of CPUs/cores"
default 1
range 1 12
help
Maximum number of multiprocessing-capable cores available to the
multicpu API and SMP features.
config SCHED_IPI_SUPPORTED
bool
help
True if the architecture supports a call to arch_sched_broadcast_ipi()
to broadcast an interrupt that will call z_sched_ipi() on other CPUs
in the system. Required for k_thread_abort() to operate with
reasonable latency (otherwise we might have to wait for the other
thread to take an interrupt, which can be arbitrarily far in the
future).
config SCHED_IPI_CASCADE
bool "Use cascading IPIs to correct localized scheduling"
depends on SCHED_CPU_MASK && !SCHED_CPU_MASK_PIN_ONLY
default n
help
Threads that are preempted by a local thread (a thread that is
restricted by its CPU mask to execute on a subset of all CPUs) may
trigger additional IPIs when the preempted thread is of higher
priority than a currently executing thread on another CPU. Although
these cascading IPIs will ensure that the system will settle upon a
valid set of high priority threads, it comes at a performance cost.
config TRACE_SCHED_IPI
bool "Test IPI"
help
When true, it will add a hook into z_sched_ipi(), in order
to check if schedule IPI has called or not, for testing
purpose.
depends on SCHED_IPI_SUPPORTED
depends on MP_MAX_NUM_CPUS>1
config IPI_OPTIMIZE
bool "Optimize IPI delivery"
default n
depends on SCHED_IPI_SUPPORTED && MP_MAX_NUM_CPUS>1
help
When selected, the kernel will attempt to determine the minimum
set of CPUs that need an IPI to trigger a reschedule in response to
a thread newly made ready for execution. This increases the
computation required at every scheduler operation by a value that is
O(N) in the number of CPUs, and in exchange reduces the number of
interrupts delivered. Which to choose is going to depend on
application behavior. If the architecture also supports directing
IPIs to specific CPUs then this has the potential to signficantly
reduce the number of IPIs (and consequently ISRs) processed by the
system as the number of CPUs increases. If not, the only benefit
would be to not issue any IPIs if the newly readied thread is of
lower priority than all the threads currently executing on other CPUs.
config KERNEL_COHERENCE
bool "Place all shared data into coherent memory"
depends on ARCH_HAS_COHERENCE
default y if SMP && MP_MAX_NUM_CPUS > 1
select THREAD_STACK_INFO
help
When available and selected, the kernel will build in a mode
where all shared data is placed in multiprocessor-coherent
(generally "uncached") memory. Thread stacks will remain
cached, as will application memory declared with
__incoherent. This is intended for Zephyr SMP kernels
running on cache-incoherent architectures only. Note that
when this is selected, there is an implicit API change that
assumes cache coherence to any memory passed to the kernel.
Code that creates kernel data structures in uncached regions
may fail strangely. Some assertions exist to catch these
mistakes, but not all circumstances can be tested.
config TICKET_SPINLOCKS
bool "Ticket spinlocks for lock acquisition fairness [EXPERIMENTAL]"
select EXPERIMENTAL
help
Basic spinlock implementation is based on single
atomic variable and doesn't guarantee locking fairness
across multiple CPUs. It's even possible that single CPU
will win the contention every time which will result
in a live-lock.
Ticket spinlocks provide a FIFO order of lock acquisition
which resolves such unfairness issue at the cost of slightly
increased memory footprint.
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