rcutorture: Add rcuperf holdoff boot parameter to reduce interference

Boot-time activity can legitimately grab CPUs for extended time periods,
so the commit adds a boot parameter to delay the start of the performance
test until boot has completed.  Defaults to 10 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 951af48..da9ee46 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3288,6 +3288,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        Measure performance of expedited synchronous
                        grace-period primitives.
 
+       rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
+                       Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
+                       this parameter is to delay the start of the
+                       test until boot completes in order to avoid
+                       interference.
+
        rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
                        Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
                        N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c b/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
index 12561f9..2786001 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>");
        do { if (verbose) pr_alert("%s" PERF_FLAG "!!! %s\n", perf_type, s); } while (0)
 
 torture_param(bool, gp_exp, true, "Use expedited GP wait primitives");
+torture_param(int, holdoff, 10, "Holdoff time before test start (s)");
 torture_param(int, nreaders, -1, "Number of RCU reader threads");
 torture_param(int, nwriters, -1, "Number of RCU updater threads");
 torture_param(bool, shutdown, false, "Shutdown at end of performance tests.");
@@ -368,6 +369,10 @@ rcu_perf_writer(void *arg)
        set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(me % nr_cpu_ids));
        sp.sched_priority = 1;
        sched_setscheduler_nocheck(current, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
+
+       if (holdoff)
+               schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(holdoff * HZ);
+
        t = ktime_get_mono_fast_ns();
        if (atomic_inc_return(&n_rcu_perf_writer_started) >= nrealwriters) {
                t_rcu_perf_writer_started = t;