RE: qa 166 failure on f8 kernel

nscott
2007-08-08T05:47:18Z

>> From: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com
>> [mailto:xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com]On Behalf Of
>> David Chinner
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:56 PM
>> To: Eric Sandeen
>> Cc: xfs-oss
>> Subject: Re: qa 166 failure on f8 kernel
> ...
>> mmap dirties entire pages. page size differs between platforms -
>> ia64 = 16k, x86 = 4k - so the size of the extent allocated is
>> different. Guess what platform I wrote the test on and use as my
>> primary platform?
>>
>> The output needs better filtering, methinks.
>
> Could the test be changed so the output is pagesize independent
> rather than filtering the output? Or maybe the test should
> use a buffer size that's the LCM of all supported page sizes.
>

FWIW, xfs-cmds/xfstests/src/feature.c will tell you the page size (-s);
with that you can accurately filter the output and not lose any info.

cheers.

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Nathan