linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] rcutorture: Allow a negative value for nfakewriters

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Message-ID: <Z72iVbIZJ4jAMz4j@pc636>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:58:29 +0100
From: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, RCU <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
	Cheung Wall <zzqq0103.hey@...il.com>,
	Neeraj upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@....com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
	Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...y.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] rcutorture: Allow a negative value for
 nfakewriters

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 10:41:03AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 02:36:57PM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> > Currently "nfakewriters" parameter can be set to any value but
> > there is no possibility to adjust it automatically based on how
> > many CPUs a system has where a test is run on.
> > 
> > To address this, if the "nfakewriters" is set to negative it will
> > be adjusted to num_online_cpus() during torture initialization.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
> 
Applied and i will resend a v3 :)

Thank you!

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Uladzislau Rezki