Commit fecad509 authored Jul 20, 2018 by Paul E. McKenney

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@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

parent 1e696765

kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -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);

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