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From: Tom Wilkie <tw275@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: RE: 3.0-testing
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:25:40 +0100
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To: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@hp.com>
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Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote:
>>   1. 3.0-testing (Ian Pratt)
>> * New regression test suite. We're working on a sophisticated test
>>suite that will run a wide range of benchmarks and test programs
>>[lmbench, ttcp, ltp, kernbench, reaim, postmark, osdb/postgresql, ace
>>tcp_test, specjbb, tbench, dbench, crashme] under a variety of
>>situations [UP and SMP domains, multiple concurrent domains,
>>communicating domains etc.] The final phase of the test will also
>>exercise the tools, adding/removing CPUs, adding/removing memory,
>>migrating domains etc. This is going to be a really good work out for
>>xen and guest kernels. Stay tuned...
> 
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> (Sorry about the strange reply/subject.  It appears gmane is down (which
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> Sounds cool!  Will this be available for others to use?

The idea is it will eventually be released, but we're still developing 
it atm.

> 
> It would be great if the suite is well parameterized so it is possible
> to easily turn off individual tests or classes of tests.  Then it
> can be used by ports that are not as far along as x86.

Thats the idea yeah.

Tom

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> Dan
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