Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751204AbVJXR7r (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:59:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751206AbVJXR7r (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:59:47 -0400 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.86]:49897 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751204AbVJXR7q (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:59:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1130171073.6831.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20051022231214.GA5847@us.ibm.com> <200510230922.26550.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> <20051023143617.GA7961@us.ibm.com> <200510232055.17782.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> <20051023120521.26031051.akpm@osdl.org> <20051024004709.GA9454@us.ibm.com> <1130171073.6831.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <5D5AD6EA-5D6E-47DA-8170-0729F9C32889@mac.com> Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , Ingo Oeser , lkml , arjan@infradead.org, pavel@ucw.cz, dipankar@in.ibm.com, vatsa@in.ibm.com, rusty@au1.ib.com, mingo@elte.hu, manfred@colorfullife.com, gregkh@kroah.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:59:30 -0400 To: Badari Pulavarty X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1062 Lines: 31 On Oct 24, 2005, at 12:24:33, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Paul, > > I enabled RCU_TORTURE_TEST in 2.6.14-rc5-mm1. My machine took 10+ > minutes to boot and let me login. RCU kthreads are hogging the > CPU. Is this expected ? Uhh... It's a torture test. What exactly do _you_ expect it will do? I think the idea is to enable it as a module and load it when you want to start torture testing, and unload it when done. "TORTURE_TEST"s are not for production systems :-D. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM/CS/IT/E/U d- s++: a18 C++++>$ ULBX*++++(+++)>$ P++++(+++)>$ L++++ (+++)>$ !E- W+++(++) N+++(++) o? K? w--- O? M++ V? PS+() PE+(-) Y+ PGP + t+(+++) 5 X R? !tv-(--) b++++(++) DI+(++) D+++ G e>++++$ h*(+)>++$ r %(--) !y?-(--) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/