From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Currently, all stuttered kthreads block a jiffy at a time, which can result in them starting at different times. (Note: This is not an energy-efficiency problem unless you run torture tests in production, in which case you have other problems!) This commit increases the intensity of the restart event by causing kthreads to spin through the last jiffy, restarting when they see the variable change.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- kernel/torture.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/torture.c b/kernel/torture.c index f329848c3eee..bd768effba9a 100644 --- a/kernel/torture.c +++ b/kernel/torture.c @@ -533,7 +533,11 @@ void stutter_wait(const char *title) while (ACCESS_ONCE(stutter_pause_test) || (torture_runnable && !ACCESS_ONCE(*torture_runnable))) { if (stutter_pause_test) - schedule_timeout_interruptible(1); + if (ACCESS_ONCE(stutter_pause_test) == 1) + schedule_timeout_interruptible(1); + else + while (ACCESS_ONCE(stutter_pause_test)) + cond_resched(); else schedule_timeout_interruptible(round_jiffies_relative(HZ)); torture_shutdown_absorb(title); @@ -550,7 +554,11 @@ static int torture_stutter(void *arg) VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("torture_stutter task started"); do { if (!torture_must_stop()) { - schedule_timeout_interruptible(stutter); + if (stutter > 1) { + schedule_timeout_interruptible(stutter - 1); + ACCESS_ONCE(stutter_pause_test) = 2; + } + schedule_timeout_interruptible(1); ACCESS_ONCE(stutter_pause_test) = 1; } if (!torture_must_stop()) -- 1.8.1.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/