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    torture: Default jitter off when running rcuperf · adcfe76c
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    The purpose of jitter is to expose concurrency bugs due to invalid
    assumptions about forward progress.  There is usually little point
    in jitter when measuring performance.  This commit therefore defaults
    jitter off when running rcuperf.  You can override this by specifying
    the kvm.sh "--jitter" argument -after- the "--torture rcuperf"
    argument.  No idea why you would want this, but if you do, that is
    how you do it.
    
    One example of a conccurrency bug that this jitter might expose is one
    in which the developer assumed that a given short region of code would be
    guaranteed to execute within some short time limit.  Such assumptions are
    invalid in virtualized environments because the hupervisor can preempt
    the guest OS at any point, even when the guest OS thinks that it has
    disabled interrupts.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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