Re: [PATCH 3/9] rcu: Cleanup rcu_init_geometry() code and arithmetics

[Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 10:08:21AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> The rest of this series looks promising, but I do have to ask...  How have
> you tested these?  The most straightforward approach would be to find

I tried trees with 1,2 and 3 levels on a 160-CPU machine + dozens of kernel
builds with 'make -j160'. I feel bit guilty I did not try the corner case
with 4 levels, but run-time-wise it is not really differ from what I done.

Do you expect the below is a better option?

> a KVM-capable system with at least 16 CPUs and type the following from
> the top-level directory:
> 
> sh tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --cpus 34 --duration 5
> 
> This will do a series of 16 build-boot-test cycles with various configs
> (including various rcu_node tree shapes), and print a summary of the
> outcome at the end.
> 
> For these sorts of changes, I usually also do some user-level testing.


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Regards,
Alexander Gordeev
agordeev@redhat.com