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Message-Id: <20150817.143252.890116643769336637.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:32:52 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: phil@....cc Cc: tgraf@...g.ch, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] rhashtable-test: extend to test concurrency From: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 00:37:15 +0200 > After having tested insertion, lookup, table walk and removal, spawn a > number of threads running operations on the same rhashtable. Each of > them will: > > 1) insert it's own set of objects, > 2) lookup every successfully inserted object and finally > 3) remove objects in several rounds until all of them have been removed, > making sure the remaining ones are still found after each round. > > This should put a good amount of load onto the system and due to > synchronising thread startup via two semaphores also extensive > concurrent table access. > > The default number of ten threads returned within half a second on my > local VM with two cores. Running 200 threads took about four seconds. If > slow systems suffer too much from this though, the default could be > lowered or even set to zero so this extended test does not run at all by > default. > > Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> Applied, thank you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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