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On Wed 24-10-18 15:54:54, Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
> There has been a lot of heat and noise and confusion and handwaving in
> all of this.  What we're crying out for is simple testcases which
> everyone can run.  Find a problem, write the testcase, distribute that.
> Develop a solution for that testcase then move on to the next one.

Agreed! It is important for these test to represent some reasonable
workloads though.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs