From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:31:35 +0000 Subject: Re: page fault scalability patch V12 [0/7]: Overview and performance Message-Id: <41AEC4D7.4060507@pobox.com> List-Id: References: <41AEB44D.2040805@pobox.com><20041201223441.3820fbc0.akpm@osdl.org><41AEBAB9.3050705@pobox.com> <20041201230217.1d2071a8.akpm@osdl.org> <179540000.1101972418@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <179540000.1101972418@[10.10.2.4]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org, clameter@sgi.com, hugh@veritas.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Yeah, probably. Though the stress tests catch a lot more than the > functionality ones. The big pain in the ass is drivers, because I don't > have a hope in hell of testing more than 1% of them. My dream is that hardware vendors rotate their current machines through a test shop :) It would be nice to make sure that the popular drivers get daily test coverage. Jeff, dreaming on From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261159AbULBHbw (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:31:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261230AbULBHbw (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:31:52 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:32678 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261159AbULBHbu (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:31:50 -0500 Message-ID: <41AEC4D7.4060507@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 02:31:35 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Martin J. Bligh" CC: Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org, clameter@sgi.com, hugh@veritas.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: page fault scalability patch V12 [0/7]: Overview and performance tests References: <41AEB44D.2040805@pobox.com><20041201223441.3820fbc0.akpm@osdl.org><41AEBAB9.3050705@pobox.com> <20041201230217.1d2071a8.akpm@osdl.org> <179540000.1101972418@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <179540000.1101972418@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Yeah, probably. Though the stress tests catch a lot more than the > functionality ones. The big pain in the ass is drivers, because I don't > have a hope in hell of testing more than 1% of them. My dream is that hardware vendors rotate their current machines through a test shop :) It would be nice to make sure that the popular drivers get daily test coverage. Jeff, dreaming on From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <41AEC4D7.4060507@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 02:31:35 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: page fault scalability patch V12 [0/7]: Overview and performance tests References: <41AEB44D.2040805@pobox.com><20041201223441.3820fbc0.akpm@osdl.org><41AEBAB9.3050705@pobox.com> <20041201230217.1d2071a8.akpm@osdl.org> <179540000.1101972418@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <179540000.1101972418@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org, clameter@sgi.com, hugh@veritas.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Yeah, probably. Though the stress tests catch a lot more than the > functionality ones. The big pain in the ass is drivers, because I don't > have a hope in hell of testing more than 1% of them. My dream is that hardware vendors rotate their current machines through a test shop :) It would be nice to make sure that the popular drivers get daily test coverage. Jeff, dreaming on -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org