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From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] mallocstress: extend test time on arm
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 05:55:35 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2012939043.6317537.1520592935484.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180309104146.GA28698@rei>


----- Original Message -----
> Hi!
> > Arm systems with lot of memory and THP enabled are
> > hitting a timeout at ~5 minute mark as reported here:
> >   mallocstress poor performance with THP on arm64 system
> >   https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=151864950330870&w=2
> > 
> > Extend the timeout to 10m (only for arm).
> 
> What about extending it unconditionally? It's not like it will hurt in
> generall case and there are possible other slow systems that would
> benefit from that as well.
> 
> Or do you have a strong reason to extend the timeout only on arm?

Just wanted to go with minimal impact on other arches (since they worked
OK so far as I'm aware). I don't have strong opinion either way,
I can make the timeout unconditional.

Regards,
Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-09 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-09 10:01 [LTP] [PATCH] mallocstress: extend test time on arm Jan Stancek
2018-03-09 10:41 ` Cyril Hrubis
2018-03-09 10:55   ` Jan Stancek [this message]
2018-03-09 12:04     ` Cyril Hrubis
2018-03-09 12:14       ` Jan Stancek

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