Re: [LTP] [PATCH] Add ftrace-stress-test to LTP

Subrata Modak
2010-09-06T16:17:08Z

Garret,

Did you get a chance to review these tests further ?

Regards--
Subrata

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 19:41 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Subrata Modak wrote:
> >> Thanks. I need to test this on a suitable kernel. But doubtful if i can
> >> add in the default run.
> >>
> >
> > Why? Because it costs 90 secs? This is configurable, and some other
> > test suites like cpuctl cost more time.
> >
> > If a test suite is not run by default, I guess people won't know its
> > existence, probably.
>
> I think that more of the concern stems from the fact that it's a
> performance test, and a lot of people complain if and when their test
> machines slow down to a halt (take hackbench, proc01, for example).
>
> There are issues with the code, but it's dealing with the fact that
> it's not really written in a portable way. Give me a bit of time and
> I'll comment on what needs to be changed.
>
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

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