Re: [PATCH 2/4] torture: Remove CONFIG_NR_CPUS configuration

[Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 12:29:45PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 07:58:26PM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> > This configuration specifies the maximum number of CPUs which
> > is set to 8. The problem is that it can not be overwritten for
> > something higher.
> > 
> > Remove that configuration for TREE05, so it is possible to run
> > the torture test on as many CPUs as many system has.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
> 
> You should be able to override this on the kvm.sh command line by
> specifying "--kconfig CONFIG_NR_CPUS=128" or whatever number you wish.
> For example, see the torture.sh querying the system's number of CPUs
> and then specifying it to a number of tests.
> 
> Or am I missing something here?
> 
It took me a while to understand what happens. Apparently there is this
8 CPUs limitation. Yes, i can do it manually by passing --kconfig but
you need to know about that. I have not expected that.

Therefore i removed it from the configuration because i have not found
a good explanation why we need. It is confusing instead :)

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Uladzislau Rezki