From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com>
Cc: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] cpuset_memory: Fix race in multinode subtests
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:39:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aUJ6TnerN5QKSfrm@yuki.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF0B0KNU874U.AETPU4ILX5BI@suse.com>
Hi!
> > I wonder if this very old test is in a long run worth to rewrite into C, as depending on
> > sleep is not a good idea and C API would hopefully help to avoid it. (Yeah, we
> > discuss sleep as a part of ground rules [1].)
>
> I tried, and I gave up :-) too many testcases and a really messy code. I
> really wish we could rewrite it, but this is one of those tests which is
> not worth the effort.
We will have to rewrite it eventually, it's not that complex, just big.
I guess that we need to isolate and rewrite one test after another while
putting the common code into a library.
--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-17 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-16 17:30 [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] cpuset_memory: Print basic subtest descriptions Martin Doucha
2025-12-16 17:30 ` [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] cpuset_memory: Fix race in multinode subtests Martin Doucha
2025-12-17 7:08 ` Petr Vorel
2025-12-17 7:13 ` Andrea Cervesato via ltp
2025-12-17 9:39 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2025-12-17 7:12 ` [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] cpuset_memory: Print basic subtest descriptions Petr Vorel
2025-12-17 10:26 ` Martin Doucha
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