Renaud,

I am not sure whether you have come across these LTP test cases under
misc/math. But we found some problem in executing them concurrently.
What do you think we can do to solve this ?

Regards--
Subrata

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 13:59 +0530, Sridhar Vinay wrote:
> Hi Renaud,
> 
> The float_bessel testcase, as a matter of fact, all float_* testcases seem
> to fail when multiple instances are run concurrently. The failures occur
> because file sizes don't match or because the number of bytes read don't
> match the file size. This can be attributed to the parallel instance
> reading a file before the write to it (by another instance) has completed.
> In such situations, either the file size has not been updated in the inode
> header or the file size has been updated but the file's write operation has
> not been updated completely. To fix this concurrency problem, my suggestion
> is to check for an existing instance and wait for it to finish before
> beginning the current instance. Any other concurrency resolution technique
> may complicate matters. A message to the console indicating such a decision
> might be added. What would you suggest?
> 
> Thanks,
> Vinay
> 
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> Vinay Sridhar,
> Linux Technology Centre,
> India Systems & Technology Labs,
> Bangalore, India
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