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

[Jan Stancek]

----- Original Message -----
> 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?

For me, OK to commit, this set has been on mailing list for couple months.

> 
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz
>