Re: [RFC PATCH -rt 2/2] RCU priority boosting additions to rcutorture

[Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>]

Hi Paul.

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 17:26 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> This patch adds an optional preemption kernel thread to the rcutorture
> tests.  This thread sets itself to a low RT priority and chews up CPU
> in 10-second bursts, verifying that grace periods progress during this
> 10-second interval.  Passes RCU torture testing on a 4-CPU (a pair of
> 2-CPU dies) 64-bit Xeon system.

[...]

> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> +static int rcu_torture_preempt(void *arg)
> +{
> +	int completedstart;
> +	int err;
> +	time_t gcstart;
> +	struct sched_param sp;
> +
> +	sp.sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO - 1;
> +	err = sched_setscheduler(current, SCHED_RR, &sp);
> +	if (err != 0)
> +		printk(KERN_ALERT "rcu_torture_preempt() priority err: %d\n",
> +		       err);
> +	current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
> +
> +	do {
> +		completedstart = rcu_torture_completed();
> +		gcstart = xtime.tv_sec;
> +		while ((xtime.tv_sec - gcstart < 10) &&
> +		       (rcu_torture_completed() == completedstart))
> +			cond_resched();
> +		if (rcu_torture_completed() == completedstart)
> +			rcu_torture_preempt_errors++;
> +		schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ);
> +	} while (!kthread_should_stop());
> +	return 0;
> +}

Does it need to be NOFREEZE? I would think that it should be frozen
during a suspend/hibernate.

Regards,

Nigel