[LTP] LTP Release

Li Wang
2019-04-30T03:09:11Z

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 7:59 PM Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
> > > > So as usually please go ahead and point out anything that should go
> in
> > > > before the release.
> > >
> > > Only Peter replied so far, so I suppose that we are ready to freeze git
> > > starting next week and start the pre-release testing.
> > >
> > > Or is there anything that has to be considered to be included before we
> > > do that?
> > >
> >
> > Here is a simple fix for hugepage test broken with memory shortage.
> > Consider merging?
> > http://lists.linux.it/pipermail/ltp/2019-April/011714.html
>
> The basic idea looks OK however:
>
> * the function name (reset_hugepages) is a bit confusing
> what about "cap_hugepages" or "limit_hugepages"
>

"limit_hugepages" sounds good to me.

>
> * The MemFree: may be close to zero on long running system because of
> cached files, AFAIK MemAvailable: would be a better choice, see:
>
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34e431b0ae398fc54ea69ff85ec700722c9da773
>
> Unfortunately that one is available since 3.14 kernel, if we wanted to
> run on older kenrnels I would propose to fall back to dropping caches
> and using MemFree: on kernel that does not have MemAvailable: in
> meminfo.
>

Good proposal. I will improve like this in patch V4. Thanks!

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Regards,
Li Wang
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