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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/2] test/rcu_qsbr: add API and functional
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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 08:25:56 -0800
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:30:51PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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).

There are similar tests in the userspace RCU library, as well, which
can be found at http://liburcu.

							Thanx, Paul