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

futex testsuite suggestion...

2014-10-27 Thread David Miller
First of all, thanks so much for writing your futex test suite, it's proved invaluable for sparc64 kernel development for me lately. 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