2024-05-30 00:29:49

by Jakub Kicinski

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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 01/13] mm: page_frag: add a test module for page_frag

On Tue, 28 May 2024 20:55:51 +0800 Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> Basing on the lib/objpool.c, change it to something like a
> ptrpool, so that we can utilize that to test the correctness
> and performance of the page_frag.
>
> The testing is done by ensuring that the fragments allocated
> from a frag_frag_cache instance is pushed into a ptrpool
> instance in a kthread binded to a specified cpu, and a kthread
> binded to a specified cpu will pop the fragmemt from the

fragment

> ptrpool and free the fragmemt.
>
> We may refactor out the common part between objpool and ptrpool
> if this ptrpool thing turns out to be helpful for other place.

Is this test actually meaningfully testing page_frag or rather
the objpool construct and the scheduler? :S