Re: [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] new syscall test: readahead02

[Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Caspar Zhang" <caspar@casparzhang.com>
> To: "Jan Stancek" <jstancek@redhat.com>
> Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Thursday, 16 August, 2012 5:06:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] new syscall test: readahead02
> 
> On 08/15/2012 08:04 PM, Jan Stancek wrote:
> >
> > Use readahead() syscall and check if subsequent
> > read saves some I/O and if cache size increased.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   testcases/kernel/syscalls/readahead/readahead02.c |  371
> >   +++++++++++++++++++++
> >   1 files changed, 371 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >   create mode 100644
> >   testcases/kernel/syscalls/readahead/readahead02.c
> >
> 
> I'm thinking if we should write some common codes to fetch certain
> fields from /proc/meminfo and if we should move read/write
> /sys/kernel/vm files to libkerntest... We do have some duplicated
> functions in mm tests.

Sounds reasonable, I also noticed seeing (and using) some snippets
over and over again.

Regards,
Jan

> 
> Caspar
> 
> 
> 

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