Re: Slow down stupid pounders

[Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>]

On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 12:29 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> so I'm getting sick'n'tired of all those bug reports of people pounding
> cpu hotplug with stupid scripts.
> 
> * We know cpu hotplug is fragile/buggy/crap/needs proper rewrite.
> 
> * Stupid hotplugging script doesn't resemble any real use case - go use
> a real benchmark/stress test to trigger bugs.
> 
> So if we can't make pounders stop jerking off, let's make it
> uninterestingly slow. Stupid patch below, it might be completely idiotic
> to do it this way but at least starts the discussion about this being a
> really annoying issue which needs some sort of dealing with.
> 
> I dunno, we can make it configurable (which will probably defeat its
> purpose partially), we can do some more fancy ratelimiting, per cpu,
> whatever... we'll see.
> 
> Opinions, flames?

Rather than ratelimit the interface perhaps send a ratelimited note
telling the user straight up that he's begging for trouble.  We can
ignore it when regression testing, and point it out to Joe Pounder
should he fail to notice.. or be somewhat dense.

-Mike