From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Aishwarya TCV <Aishwarya.TCV@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: mm: fix and speedup "droppable" test
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cf7bff8-1681-4344-8bbc-16bf4306ade3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aiu39cOX1w9ICe_U@lucifer>
>> tools/testing/selftests/mm/droppable.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
>> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/droppable.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/droppable.c
>> index 30c8be37fcb9..57e1b6fc5569 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/droppable.c
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/droppable.c
>> @@ -17,10 +17,10 @@
>>
>> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>> {
>> - size_t alloc_size = 134217728;
>> - size_t page_size = getpagesize();
>> + const size_t alloc_size = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
>
> I guess regardless of page size this suffices as an arbitrary range over which
> to check things work.
Yes, that was my thinking. "some pages".
I was briefly wondering whether to add separate tests for THP vs. !THP, but
decided to leave that for another day :)
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-12 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-11 10:01 [PATCH] selftests: mm: fix and speedup "droppable" test David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-11 11:07 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-06-11 11:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-11 11:32 ` Lance Yang
2026-06-11 12:13 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-06-11 11:15 ` Lance Yang
2026-06-11 11:19 ` Dev Jain
2026-06-11 11:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-11 11:28 ` Dev Jain
2026-06-12 1:29 ` SeongJae Park
2026-06-12 7:35 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-12 7:58 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-06-12 8:00 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-06-12 8:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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