[LTP] [PATCH 1/2 v4] syscalls: Add set_mempolicy numa tests.

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> > We also check for free memory on each numa memory mode and skip nodes
> > that don't have sufficient amount of memory for a particular test. The
> > tests checks usuall for twice as much memory per each node in order to
> > allow for allocations to be "misplaced".
> 
> I wonder if we should add some constant to it. I have foggy idea, that
> kernel keeps some reserves.

Hmm, no idea about this, I guess that adding a few megabytes for a good
luck in the library wouldn't do any harm.

> > The tests for file based shared interleaved mappings are no longer
> > mapping a single small file but rather than that we accumulate statistic
> > for larger amount of files over longer period of time and we also allow
> > for small offset (currently 10%). We should probably also increase the
> > number of samples we take as currently it's about 5MB in total on x86
> > although I haven't managed to make this test fail so far. This also
> > fixes the test on Btrfs where the synthetic test that expects the pages
> > to be distributed exactly equally fails.
> 
> API looks good to me, ACK. Maybe you could split it into 2 commits, one for
> new library API, and one for new tests.

Sure, will do.

Ok to commit the library and set_mempolicy() tests with fixed nits you
pointed out below or should I spin v5?

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz