Re: Balloon tests

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Paul Larson wrote:

>I've submitted these before, and there were no comments.  Any
>suggestions for addition tests on the balloon driver would be
>appreciated.  Here it is again as a patch putting them
>under /tools/tests/balloon.
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Hi Paul,

As you know, I'm a big fan of randomized testing.  A single randomized 
test can take the place of a large number of single function tests.

For something like the balloon driver, I think this would work best in 
concert with a larger test program that actually checked the results of 
ballooning through different mechanism (via /proc/xen/balloon, xm 
set-mem, or writing to the store directly).

The procpipe code I submitted yesterday would be an excellent way to 
coordinate this.  If you'd like, we can take this offline and develop a 
procpipe based balloon testsuite that really stresses all interfaces for 
the balloon driver.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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