[LTP] [PATCH] mallocstress: extend test time on arm

Jan Stancek jstancek@redhat.com
Fri Mar 9 11:01:03 CET 2018


Arm systems with lot of memory and THP enabled are
hitting a timeout at ~5 minute mark as reported here:
  mallocstress poor performance with THP on arm64 system
  https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=151864950330870&w=2

Extend the timeout to 10m (only for arm).

Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
---
 testcases/kernel/mem/mtest07/mallocstress.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest07/mallocstress.c b/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest07/mallocstress.c
index 2e900adac28b..fc3bfe7c4e20 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest07/mallocstress.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest07/mallocstress.c
@@ -243,6 +243,14 @@ static void cleanup(void)
 }
 
 static struct tst_test test = {
+/*
+ * extend test time on arm due to:
+ * "mallocstress poor performance with THP on arm64 system"
+ * https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=151864950330870&w=2
+ */
+#if defined(__arm__) || defined(__aarch64__)
+	.timeout = 600,
+#endif
 	.needs_checkpoints = 1,
 	.setup = setup,
 	.cleanup = cleanup,
-- 
1.8.3.1



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