RE: qa 166 failure on f8 kernel

Alex Elder
2007-08-08T05:17:02Z

> 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.

I'm not actually familiar with the test, so forgive me if I'm
way off...

-Alex