Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753270AbbGVWyO (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:54:14 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47986 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752152AbbGVWyM (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:54:12 -0400 Message-ID: <1437605640.3298.16.camel@stgolabs.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support From: Davidlohr Bueso To: Andrew Morton Cc: Mike Kravetz , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen , Naoya Horiguchi , David Rientjes , Hugh Dickins , Aneesh Kumar , Hillf Danton , Christoph Hellwig , Michal Hocko Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:54:00 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1437605459.3298.14.camel@stgolabs.net> References: <1437502184-14269-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com> <20150722150647.2597c7e5be9ee1eecc438b6f@linux-foundation.org> <1437603594.3298.5.camel@stgolabs.net> <20150722153023.e8f15eb4e490f79cc029c8cd@linux-foundation.org> <1437604474.3298.7.camel@stgolabs.net> <20150722153753.08f0a221023706d4ed1cc575@linux-foundation.org> <1437605459.3298.14.camel@stgolabs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1567 Lines: 35 On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:50 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:34:34 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > selftests is a pretty scrappy place. It's partly a dumping ground for > > > > things so useful test code doesn't just get lost and bitrotted. Partly > > > > a framework so people who add features can easily test them. Partly to > > > > provide tools to architecture maintainers when they wire up new > > > > syscalls and the like. > > > > > > Yeah, ipc, for instance, also sucks _badly_ in selftests. > > > > What testsuite should people be using for IPC? > > The best I've found is using the ipc parts of LTP. It's caught a lot of > bugs in the past. Unsurprisingly, I believe Fengguang has this > automated. > > Manfred also has a few for more specific purposes -- which also serve > for performance testing: > https://github.com/manfred-colorfu/ipcsemtest > https://github.com/manfred-colorfu/ipcscale > > iirc Dave Hansen also had written some shm-specific tests. I also used to rely on multiple Oracle 11g RDBMS workloads and benchmarks, particularly for dealing with sysv sems. Unfortunately I no longer have the required licenses :( -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/