Re: futex testsuite suggestion...

2014-11-24 Thread David Miller
From: Darren Hart Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 00:02:39 -0800 > From your suggestion I put together a simple transparent hugepage functional > test. See the "thp" branch, functional/futex_wait_thp.c. > > I'd like your thoughts on if this functions as desired. Is the simple single > threaded timeout su

Re: futex testsuite suggestion...

2014-11-22 Thread Darren Hart
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 04:31:16PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Darren Hart > Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:29:14 -0700 > > > On 10/27/14 12:56, David Miller wrote: > >> I'd like to suggest that you add a test that triggers transparent > >> hugepages, because if an architecture doesn't implemen

Re: futex testsuite suggestion...

2014-10-27 Thread David Miller
From: Darren Hart Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:29:14 -0700 > On 10/27/14 12:56, David Miller wrote: >> I'd like to suggest that you add a test that triggers transparent >> hugepages, because if an architecture doesn't implement >> __get_user_pages_fast() such futexes cause a machine to hang. >> >>

Re: futex testsuite suggestion...

2014-10-27 Thread Darren Hart
On 10/27/14 12:56, David Miller wrote: > > First of all, thanks so much for writing your futex test suite, it's > proved invaluable for sparc64 kernel development for me lately. Hi David, Glad to hear it :-) > > I'd like to suggest that you add a test that triggers transparent > hugepages, bec