Re: [RFC PATCH 10/11] torture: support randomized shuffling for proxy exec testing

[Connor O'Brien]

> Instead of doing it this way, maybe another approach is to randomize the
> sleep interval in:
>
>  */
> static int torture_shuffle(void *arg)
> {
>         VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("torture_shuffle task started");
>         do {
>                 schedule_timeout_interruptible(shuffle_interval);
>                 torture_shuffle_tasks();
>                 ...
>         } while (...)
>         ...
> }
>
> Right now with this patch you still wakeup the shuffle thread when skipping
> the affinity set operation.
>
> thanks,
>
>  - Joel
>

Wouldn't the affinities of all the tasks still change in lockstep
then? The intent with this patch is to get into situations where the
tasks have different affinity masks, which I think requires changing
the behavior of torture_shuffle_tasks() rather than how often it's
called.