From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
Cc: LTP List <ltp@lists.linux.it>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [RFC PATCH] fallocate05: increase the fallocate and defallocate size
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:56:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUr9676LXNi0xMs6@yuki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEemH2dDRT-iQPH0a-Aip8OZDUpp2Z3_x4dgVBEg4tv_pyWvfw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!
> > Looking at the test I do not think there is a reason to allocate more
> > than a two or four blocks for the buffer. We just need to write() to the
> > fallocated area in a loop one block at a time until it's full. I do not
> > think that it's a good idea to pass ~100MB buffer to a single write()
> > and expect it to succeed anyways.
> >
>
> Sounds practical.
>
> Btw, If we don't create such a larger buffer area, then we have to
> count the loop times must as equal to bufsize/blocksize. Otherwise,
> we can't guarantee the test behavior is correct.
Strangely enough we allready do exactly that for the second part of the test.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-22 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-17 10:46 [LTP] [RFC PATCH] fallocate05: increase the fallocate and defallocate size Li Wang
2021-09-07 2:40 ` Li Wang
2021-09-07 2:40 ` Li Wang
2021-09-07 8:00 ` Jan Stancek
2021-09-07 8:00 ` Jan Stancek
2021-09-08 1:21 ` Li Wang
2021-09-08 1:21 ` Li Wang
2021-09-21 20:33 ` Ralph Siemsen
2021-09-22 5:03 ` Li Wang
2021-09-22 8:21 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-09-22 9:53 ` Li Wang
2021-09-22 9:56 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2021-09-22 10:34 ` Li Wang
2021-09-22 14:32 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-09-22 16:52 ` Ralph Siemsen
2021-09-23 3:00 ` Li Wang
2021-09-23 6:29 ` Li Wang
2021-09-23 13:09 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-09-24 4:27 ` Li Wang
2021-09-23 14:33 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-09-24 1:49 ` Ralph Siemsen
2021-09-24 4:18 ` Li Wang
2021-09-24 15:11 ` Ralph Siemsen
2021-09-24 18:26 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-09-24 20:26 ` Ralph Siemsen
2021-09-25 2:16 ` Ralph Siemsen
2021-09-26 7:17 ` Li Wang
2021-09-26 7:40 ` Li Wang
2021-09-26 7:39 ` Li Wang
2021-09-27 1:37 ` Ralph Siemsen
2021-09-24 6:49 ` Li Wang
2021-09-24 9:33 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-09-23 6:39 ` Li Wang
2021-09-23 13:10 ` Cyril Hrubis
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