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linux/Documentation/RCU
Paul E. McKenney d120f65f3a rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: add stutter feature
This patch takes a step towards making rcutorture more brutal by allowing
the test to be automatically periodically paused, with the default being
to run the test for five seconds then pause for five seconds and repeat.
This behavior can be controlled using a new "stutter" module parameter, so
that "stutter=0" gives the old default behavior of running continuously.

Starting and stopping rcutorture more heavily stresses RCU's interaction
with the scheduler, as well as exercising more paths through the
grace-period detection code.

Note that the default to "shuffle_interval" has also been adjusted from
5 seconds to 3 seconds to provide varying overlap with the "stutter"
interval.

I am still unable to provoke the failures that Alexey has been seeing,
even with this patch, but will be doing a few additional things to beef
up rcutorture.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-18 15:06:56 +02:00
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00-INDEX Add Documentation/RCU/00-Index 2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
arrayRCU.txt
checklist.txt sched: 1Q08 RCU doc update, add call_rcu_sched() 2008-05-19 10:01:37 +02:00
listRCU.txt
NMI-RCU.txt sched: 1Q08 RCU doc update, add call_rcu_sched() 2008-05-19 10:01:37 +02:00
rcu.txt Preempt-RCU: update RCU Documentation. 2008-01-25 21:08:25 +01:00
rcuref.txt
RTFP.txt sched: 1Q08 RCU doc update, add call_rcu_sched() 2008-05-19 10:01:37 +02:00
torture.txt rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: add stutter feature 2008-06-18 15:06:56 +02:00
UP.txt
whatisRCU.txt sched: 1Q08 RCU doc update, add call_rcu_sched() 2008-05-19 10:01:37 +02:00