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rcutorture: Add rcuperf holdoff boot parameter to reduce interference

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Boot-time activity can legitimately grab CPUs for extended time periods,
so the commit adds a boot parameter to delay the start of the performance
test until boot has completed.  Defaults to 10 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney 2016-01-30 20:56:38 -08:00
parent 2b03d03845
commit df37e66bfd
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@ -3288,6 +3288,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Measure performance of expedited synchronous
grace-period primitives.
rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
this parameter is to delay the start of the
test until boot completes in order to avoid
interference.
rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value

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kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
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@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>");
do { if (verbose) pr_alert("%s" PERF_FLAG "!!! %s\n", perf_type, s); } while (0)
torture_param(bool, gp_exp, true, "Use expedited GP wait primitives");
torture_param(int, holdoff, 10, "Holdoff time before test start (s)");
torture_param(int, nreaders, -1, "Number of RCU reader threads");
torture_param(int, nwriters, -1, "Number of RCU updater threads");
torture_param(bool, shutdown, false, "Shutdown at end of performance tests.");
@ -368,6 +369,10 @@ rcu_perf_writer(void *arg)
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(me % nr_cpu_ids));
sp.sched_priority = 1;
sched_setscheduler_nocheck(current, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
if (holdoff)
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(holdoff * HZ);
t = ktime_get_mono_fast_ns();
if (atomic_inc_return(&n_rcu_perf_writer_started) >= nrealwriters) {
t_rcu_perf_writer_started = t;