Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-3.0 4/4] tests: torture release-ram in postcopy test

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Peter Xu (address@hidden) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:25:24AM +0200, Juan Quintela wrote:
> > Peter Xu <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > The release-ram capability will run some extra code for postcopy to
> > > release used ram right away, let's just turn that on for the postcopy
> > > unix test always to torture that code path too to make sure release-ram
> > > feature won't break again.  The recovery test needs to turn that off
> > > since release-ram cannot coop with that.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > 
> > But I think that the proper thing to do here is to have two tests.  One
> > for postcopy and another for postcopy + release-ram.
> 
> Yeah I thought about it too, but I am not sure whether it'll worth it
> to have a separate test for the release-ram feature (basically that's
> some extra seconds for every unit test, even on relatively fast CPUs).
> I did it this way since IMHO release-ram is mostly adding extra code
> path to the postcopy logic, hence we should not miss much (or any) of
> the old test path.  Ideally we should still cover all the postcopy
> code path that we want to test.

It's worth being a bit careful, since I'm not sure if release-ram has
ever been tested on hosts with larger page size; my suspicion is you
might get a spew of errors on Power.

Dave

> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Peter Xu
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