rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribe

By default, with rcutorture.nreaders equal to -1, rcutorture provisions
N-1 reader kthreads, where N is the number of CPUs.  This avoids
rcutorture-induced stalls, but also avoids heavier levels of torture.
This commit therefore allows negative values of rcutorture.nreaders
to specify larger numbers of reader kthreads, so that for example
rcutorture.nreaders=-2 provisions N kthreads and rcutorture.nreaders=-5
provisions N+3 kthreads.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Update documentation, as suggested by Josh Triplett. ]
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Paul E. McKenney
2015-03-12 13:55:48 -07:00
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@@ -1701,7 +1701,7 @@ rcu_torture_init(void)
if (nreaders >= 0) {
nrealreaders = nreaders;
} else {
nrealreaders = num_online_cpus() - 1;
nrealreaders = num_online_cpus() - 2 - nreaders;
if (nrealreaders <= 0)
nrealreaders = 1;
}