From dbdf65b1b7f8ec48bda1604cfea7ac09ce583d6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:07:22 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] rcutorture: renice to low priority Make the box usable for interactive work when running the RCU torture test, by renicing the RCU torture-test threads to +19 by default. Kthreads run at nice -5 by default. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/rcutorture.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcutorture.c index 9b58f1eff3ca..eb6719c50b4e 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutorture.c +++ b/kernel/rcutorture.c @@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ rcu_torture_writer(void *arg) static DEFINE_RCU_RANDOM(rand); VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("rcu_torture_writer task started"); + set_user_nice(current, 19); + do { schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); if (rcu_batches_completed() == oldbatch) @@ -238,6 +240,8 @@ rcu_torture_reader(void *arg) int pipe_count; VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("rcu_torture_reader task started"); + set_user_nice(current, 19); + do { rcu_read_lock(); completed = rcu_batches_completed(); -- 2.30.2