THREADS should be a global option

configs/base.sh

@@ -5,3 +5,7 @@ X86_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY=x86_energy_perf_policy
 # Execute all SSH commands under this user
 # so that we don't need ssh keys for root
 SSH_USER=p5cai
+
+# Default No. of threads
+# Note that not all experiments honor this setting
+THREADS=8

configs/memcached.sh

 MEMCACHED=/home/p5cai/workspace/memcached/memcached
-THREADS=8 # default

experiments/memcached_qps_scan.sh

@@ -3,20 +3,6 @@ source "$EXP_ROOT/experiments/memcached.shared.sh"
 pre_start() {
     load_config
 
-    while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
-        case $1 in
-            -t)
-                [ -z "$2" ] && echo "# of threads must not be empty" && exit 1
-                THREADS="$2"
-                shift
-                shift
-                ;;
-            *)
-                break
-                ;;
-        esac
-    done
-
     EXPERIMENT_NAME_EXT="t$THREADS.c$CONNS"
 
     cleanup_mutilate    

run.sh

@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
             shift
             shift
             ;;
+        -t|--threads)
+            THREADS="$2"
+            shift
+            shift
+            ;;
         *)
             break
             ;;