[LTP] [PATCH V2] madvise09:Update PAGES to a larger value

[Li Wang]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 5:41 PM Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
> > Thanks for the quick work on this.
> >
> > There are two problems that you probably ignored.
> >
> > 1. On ppc64 system, the page size is 64KB, and 970 * 64KB is almost 60MB
> > which we do allocate. So we'd better raise
> > the limit_in_bytes/memsw.limit_in_bytes a little in cgroup
> correspondingly.
> >
> > 2. As Cascardo points out, madvise09 gets retries in an infinite loop
> when
> > hitting OOM. That's because, in the run() function, it does not limit the
> > retry times. We need to take care of this as well.
>
> I guess that the debug printing would go out of hand as well, 970
> characters printed into the console is no fun either. The test needs a
> bit more than just bumping the number of pages. However as we are
> getting really close to release I guess that the best course of action
> would be workarounding the issue for now by bumping the number of pages
> to something as 128 pages. Then we can rework the test once LTP has been
> released.
>

OK for me.

-- 
Regards,
Li Wang
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