[LTP] [PATCH] mallocstress: extend test time on arm
Jan Stancek
jstancek@redhat.com
Fri Mar 9 11:55:35 CET 2018
----- Original Message -----
> Hi!
> > 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).
>
> What about extending it unconditionally? It's not like it will hurt in
> generall case and there are possible other slow systems that would
> benefit from that as well.
>
> Or do you have a strong reason to extend the timeout only on arm?
Just wanted to go with minimal impact on other arches (since they worked
OK so far as I'm aware). I don't have strong opinion either way,
I can make the timeout unconditional.
Regards,
Jan
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