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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/2] test/rcu_qsbr: add API and functional
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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 23:30:51 -0800
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 20:14:20 -0600
Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com> wrote:

> From: Dharmik Thakkar <dharmik.thakkar@arm.com>
> 
> Add API positive/negative test cases and functional tests.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Malvika Gupta <malvika.gupta@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dharmik Thakkar <dharmik.thakkar@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>

Just a thought, could you build stress tests like the kernel RCU tests?
One worry is that RCU does not play well with blocking threads (and sometimes preemption).