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

Daniel Wagner
2026-02-12T07:52:30Z

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 08:35:30PM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
>   For the storage track at LSFMMBPF2026, I propose a session dedicated to
>   blktests to discuss expansion plan and CI integration progress.

Thanks for proposing this topic.

Just a few random topics which come to mind we could discuss:

- blktests has gain a bit of traction and some folks run on regular
basis these tests. Can we gather feedback from them, what is working
good, what is not? Are there feature wishes?
- Do we need some sort of configuration tool which allows to setup a
config? I'd still have a TODO to provide a config example with all
knobs which influence blktests, but I wonder if we should go a step
further here, e.g. something like kdevops has?
- Which area do we lack tests? Should we just add an initial simple
tests for the missing areas, so the basic infra is there and thus
lowering the bar for adding new tests?
- The recent addition of kmemleak shows it's a great idea to enable more
of the kernel test infrastructure when running the tests. Are there
more such things we could/should enable?
- I would like to hear from Shin'ichiro if he is happy how things
are going? :)