From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com,
bobby.prani@gmail.com,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/24] rcutorture: Documentation for rcuperf kernel parameters
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 08:43:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1460475837-26498-5-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160412154332.GA24983@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds documentation for the new rcuperf module's kernel
boot parameters.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index ecc74fa4bfde..951af481da5a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3284,6 +3284,38 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
prove do nothing more than free memory.
+ rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
+ Measure performance of expedited synchronous
+ grace-period primitives.
+
+ rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
+ Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
+ N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
+ "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
+ the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
+ (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
+ A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
+ a single reader.
+
+ rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
+ Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
+ the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
+ N, where N is the number of CPUs
+
+ rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
+ Start rcuperf running at boot time.
+
+ rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
+ Shut the system down after performance tests
+ complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
+ testing.
+
+ rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
+ Specify the RCU implementation to test.
+
+ rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
+ Enable additional printk() statements.
+
rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
callback-flood tests.
--
2.5.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-12 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 15:43 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/24] Torture-test changes for 4.7 Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/24] rcutorture: Update scripting to accommodate rcuperf Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/24] rcutorture: Allow for rcupdate.rcu_normal Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/24] rcutorture: Expedited-GP batch progress access to torturing Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/24] rcutorture: Add RCU grace-period performance tests Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/24] rcutorture: Bind rcuperf reader/writer kthreads to CPUs Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/24] rcutorture: Set rcuperf writer kthreads to real-time priority Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/24] rcutorture: Print measure of batching efficiency Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/24] rcutorture: Make rcuperf collect expedited event-trace data Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/24] rcutorture: Make scripts analyze rcuperf trace data, if present Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/24] rcutorture: Add rcuperf holdoff boot parameter to reduce interference Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 12/24] rcutorture: Avoid RCU CPU stall warning and RT throttling Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 13/24] rcutorture: Add largish-system rcuperf scenario Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/24] rcuperf: Do not wake up shutdown wait queue if "shutdown" is false Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 15/24] rcutorture: Remove redundant initialization to zero Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/24] rcutorture: Consider FROZEN hotplug notifier transitions Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 17/24] torture: Clarify refusal to run more than one torture test Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 18/24] torture: Kill qemu, not parent process Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 19/24] rcutorture: Convert test duration to seconds early Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 20/24] rcutorture: Add OS-jitter capability Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 21/24] rcutorture: Don't rebuild identical kernel Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 22/24] rcutorture: Dump trace buffer upon shutdown Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 23/24] rcutorture: Add irqs-disabled test for call_rcu() Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-12 15:43 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 24/24] rcutorture: Add boot-time adjustment of leaf fanout Paul E. McKenney
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