rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribe
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:55:48 +0000 (13:55 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 27 May 2015 19:59:57 +0000 (12:59 -0700)
commit3838cc1850ccd09f93e729e9047ec1995026f83e
tree10c704c147266b9083bc0f9a16e51116847057f4
parent6530b3f4c5043aa8ef66faa8296291b1ea6ba2eb
rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribe

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@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Update documentation, as suggested by Josh Triplett. ]
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c