linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 13/17] rcutorture: Reduce priority of forward-progress testing

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Message-Id: <20180829214750.26972-13-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:47:46 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 13/17] rcutorture: Reduce priority of forward-progress testing

On !SMP tests, the forward-progress kthread might prevent RCU's
grace-period kthread from running, which would defeat RCU's
forward-progress measures.  On PREEMPT tests without RCU priority
boosting, the forward-progress kthread might preempt a reader for an
extended time period, which would also defeat RCU's forward-progress
measures.  This commit therefore reduced rcutorture's forward-progress
kthread's priority in those cases.

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

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 9622192ec5c9..ac487ea8d245 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -1710,6 +1710,8 @@ static int rcu_torture_fwd_prog(void *args)
 	static DEFINE_TORTURE_RANDOM(trs);
 
 	VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_fwd_progress task started");
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP) || !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_BOOST))
+		set_user_nice(current, MAX_NICE);
 	if  (cur_ops->call && cur_ops->sync && cur_ops->cb_barrier) {
 		init_rcu_head_on_stack(&fcs.rh);
 		cur_ops->call(&fcs.rh, rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cb);
-- 
2.17.1