Re: [LSF/MM/BPF ATTEND][LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] : blktests: status, expansion plan for the storage stack test framework

Bart Van Assche
2024-01-09T22:08:24Z

On 1/9/24 14:01, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> On 1/9/2024 1:31 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On 1/8/24 22:30, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
>>> 5. Potentially adding VM support in the blktests.
>>
>> What is "VM support"? I'm running blktests in a VM all the time since
>> this test suite was introduced.
>>
>> Bart.
>
> An ability to start, stop, suspend, issue commands to vm, recent
> patchset async shutdown on linux-nvme list is one of the example why we
> may need this feature, see [1].
>
> -ck
>
> [1]
>
> https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2024-Januar/044135.html
If I try to open that link, the following appears: "Not Found - The requested
URL was not found on this server." Anyway, I think I know which patch series
you are referring to. There may be better ways to trigger shutdown calls than
by stopping a VM.

Thanks,

Bart.