RE: Re: 3.0-testing

RE: Re: 3.0-testing

[Ian Pratt]

> Since the semantics of the tree is a bit different from 
> 2.0-testing might it make sense to use a different name, e.g. pre-3.0?

Not so different. Changing tree names is actually a pain in the butt, so
I think 3.0-testing is actually OK. We will then fork 3.0 from it when
we're ready for a release (and tag it 3.0.0), and 3.0-testing will be
strictly bug fixes only. 

We're not intending to do any checkins to -unstable until 3.0 is
released. In fact, we might start off soft linking the -unstable repo to
-3.0-testing.
 
> Also, will the 3.0-testing tree be appropriate to roll in 
> common-izing changes (i.e. abstracting out x86-isms) in 
> drivers and xc?  These should be low risk to x86_* as they 
> will simply be syntactic, e.g. moving inline code into macros 
> or separate functions.  If so, I'd like to arrange some time 
> to work on this at OLS?

I'd have rather hoped stuff like this would have already been discussed
and posted :-(

Anyhow, we can try and find time to discuss this at OLS with both you
and Jimi, Hollis et al. 


Ian

Re: RE: 3.0-testing

[Tom Wilkie]

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...
> 
> 
> (Sorry about the strange reply/subject.  It appears gmane is down (which
> is
> my usual method for followup since I subscribe to the digest version.)
> 
> 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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Re: RE: 3.0-testing

[Paul Larson]

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On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 06:55 -0700, 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...
> 
> (Sorry about the strange reply/subject.  It appears gmane is down (which
> is
> my usual method for followup since I subscribe to the digest version.)
> 
> Sounds cool!  Will this be available for others to use?
> 
> 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.
Have you looked at Xentest?  Xentest lets you very easily add/remove
tests with a few lines in a config file.  We should be making an updated
release soon.

-- 
Thanks,
Paul Larson
plars@linuxtestproject.org
http://www.linuxtestproject.org

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RE: RE: 3.0-testing

[Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)]

> Have you looked at Xentest?  Xentest lets you very easily add/remove
> tests with a few lines in a config file.  We should be making 
> an updated
> release soon.

Can you provide a pointer?  Google doesn't find much.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Larson [mailto:plars@linuxtestproject.org] 
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 10:24 AM
> To: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RE: 3.0-testing
> 
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 06:55 -0700, 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...
> > 
> > (Sorry about the strange reply/subject.  It appears gmane 
> is down (which
> > is
> > my usual method for followup since I subscribe to the 
> digest version.)
> > 
> > Sounds cool!  Will this be available for others to use?
> > 
> > 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.
> Have you looked at Xentest?  Xentest lets you very easily add/remove
> tests with a few lines in a config file.  We should be making 
> an updated
> release soon.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Paul Larson
> plars@linuxtestproject.org
> http://www.linuxtestproject.org
> 

Re: RE: 3.0-testing

[Paul Larson]

Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote:

>>Have you looked at Xentest?  Xentest lets you very easily add/remove
>>tests with a few lines in a config file.  We should be making 
>>an updated
>>release soon.
>>    
>>
>
>Can you provide a pointer?  Google doesn't find much.
>  
>
The xen-devl mailing list archives would be a better place to look.  
I'll be making another release later this week too if you'd like to just 
wait for that.  The new version has a much better results directory 
layout, a facility for specifying patches to apply against the xen tree 
before building it, and several fixes.

Thanks,
Paul Larson