linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/13] rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribe

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Date:	Tue, 12 May 2015 15:58:04 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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	bobby.prani@...il.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/13] rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribe

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

By default, with rcutorture.nreaders equal to -1, rcutorture provisions
N-1 reader kthreads, where N is the number of CPUs.  This avoids
rcutorture-induced stalls, but also avoids heavier levels of torture.
This commit therefore allows negative values of rcutorture.nreaders
to specify larger numbers of reader kthreads, so that for example
rcutorture.nreaders=-2 provisions N kthreads and rcutorture.nreaders=-5
provisions N+3 kthreads.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index a67ef6ff86b0..7294d605c481 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -1701,7 +1701,7 @@ rcu_torture_init(void)
 	if (nreaders >= 0) {
 		nrealreaders = nreaders;
 	} else {
-		nrealreaders = num_online_cpus() - 1;
+		nrealreaders = num_online_cpus() - 2 - nreaders;
 		if (nrealreaders <= 0)
 			nrealreaders = 1;
 	}
-- 
1.8.1.5

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