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    rcutorture: Add callback-flood test · 38706bc5
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    
    
    Although RCU is designed to handle arbitrary floods of callbacks, this
    capability is not routinely tested.   This commit therefore adds a
    cbflood capability in which kthreads repeatedly registers large numbers
    of callbacks.  One such kthread is created for each four CPUs (rounding
    up), and the test may be controlled by several cbflood_* kernel boot
    parameters, which control the number of bursts per flood, the number
    of callbacks per burst, the time between bursts, and the time between
    floods.  The default values are large enough to exercise RCU's emergency
    responses to callback flooding.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
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