rcutorture: Reduce priority of forward-progress testing
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:18:11 +0000 (12:18 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:20:48 +0000 (09:20 -0700)
commitfecad5091f35425246316ab25c8a9f2aa44a7051
tree5c0eefc5d89637a64bbb43f0bde6abee71075906
parent1e69676592edaf81eed88ba53f5239d84fae4e67
rcutorture: Reduce priority of forward-progress testing

On !SMP tests, the forward-progress kthread might prevent RCU's
grace-period kthread from running, which would defeat RCU's
forward-progress measures.  On PREEMPT tests without RCU priority
boosting, the forward-progress kthread might preempt a reader for an
extended time period, which would also defeat RCU's forward-progress
measures.  This commit therefore reduced rcutorture's forward-progress
kthread's priority in those cases.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c