From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
vatsa@in.ibm.com, rusty@au1.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu,
manfred@colorfullife.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RCU torture testing
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 08:49:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051003154939.GF1300@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1128353520.17024.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:31:59PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > Good point -- all I really need for module parameters is the number
> > of readers. I should be able to have module load start the test and
> > module unload stop it (any problems with this approach?).
>
> only one potential gotcha; it means you can't load the system to the
> extend that the shell doesn't get cpu time otherwise the admin can never
> issue the unload. Maybe a time limit on the testing? (optional as module
> parm for all I care)
Makes sense to me! Not an issue for the RCU torture test, but it certainly
might be for other tests.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-03 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-01 18:20 Paul E. McKenney
2005-10-02 0:11 ` Greg KH
2005-10-03 14:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-10-03 14:48 ` Greg KH
2005-10-02 21:05 ` Pavel Machek
2005-10-03 6:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-03 14:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-10-03 14:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-03 15:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-10-03 15:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-03 15:49 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2005-10-22 23:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
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