Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 10:36:28 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Downing, Thomas" <Thomas.Downing@ipc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.70-mm2
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"Downing, Thomas" <Thomas.Downing@ipc.com> wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@digeo.com]
> 
> >
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.70/2.5.70-
> mm2/
> [snip]
> >  Needs lots of testing.
> [snip]
> 
> I for one would like to help in that testing, as might others.
> Could you point to/name some effective test tools/scripts/suites 
> for testing your work?  As it is, my testing is just normal usage,
> lots of builds.
> 

I was specifically referring to the O_SYNC changes there.  That means
databases: postgresql, mysql, sapdb, etc.

Some of these use fsync()-based synchronisation and won't benefit, but they
may have compile-time or runtime options to use O_SYNC instead.


Apart from that, just using the kernel in day-to-day activity is the most
important thing.  If everyone does that, and everyone is happy then by
definition this kernel is a wrap.
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