[PATCH v2 rcu-dev 1/3] rcuperf: Add ability to increase object allocation size

From: Joel Fernandes (Google)
Date: Mon Mar 16 2020 - 12:32:36 EST


This allows us to increase memory pressure dynamically using a new
rcuperf boot command line parameter called 'rcumult'.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

The Series v1->v2 only has added a new patch (3/3).


kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c b/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
index a4a8d097d84d9..16dd1e6b7c09f 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ torture_param(bool, shutdown, RCUPERF_SHUTDOWN,
torture_param(int, verbose, 1, "Enable verbose debugging printk()s");
torture_param(int, writer_holdoff, 0, "Holdoff (us) between GPs, zero to disable");
torture_param(int, kfree_rcu_test, 0, "Do we run a kfree_rcu() perf test?");
+torture_param(int, kfree_mult, 1, "Multiple of kfree_obj size to allocate.");

static char *perf_type = "rcu";
module_param(perf_type, charp, 0444);
@@ -635,7 +636,7 @@ kfree_perf_thread(void *arg)
}

for (i = 0; i < kfree_alloc_num; i++) {
- alloc_ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct kfree_obj), GFP_KERNEL);
+ alloc_ptr = kmalloc(kfree_mult * sizeof(struct kfree_obj), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!alloc_ptr)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -722,6 +723,8 @@ kfree_perf_init(void)
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
}

+ pr_alert("kfree object size=%lu\n", kfree_mult * sizeof(struct kfree_obj));
+
kfree_reader_tasks = kcalloc(kfree_nrealthreads, sizeof(kfree_reader_tasks[0]),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (kfree_reader_tasks == NULL) {
--
2.25.1.481.gfbce0eb801-goog