[RFC PATCH v1 0/9] Tests for sync infrastructure

[Emilio López]

Hi,

I somehow missed these emails back in the day, sorry for the delay in 
replying.

El 09/03/16 a las 13:13, Shuah Khan escribió:
> On 03/09/2016 08:28 AM, Emilio López wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> This is a series of tests to exercise the sync kernel infrastructure. It is
>> meant to be a test suite for the work Gustavo has been doing to destage it,
>> see [0] for his latest series to date.
>>
>> These tests were originally part of a battery of tests shipping with
>> Android's libsync that were rewritten to use the new userspace interfaces.
>>
>> As usual, all comments are welcome.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Emilio
>>
>> [0] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-March/102204.html
>
> Good to see this suite added to Kselftest. Thanks for
> being thorough and including .gitignore.
>
> Are there any destructive and/or longer time tests
> in this suite. If so could you please make them
> optional to run. Please see selftests/timers as an
> example for excluding.

As far as I know they shouldn't destroy anything. The full sync suite 
runs in under 5 seconds on my virtualized setup; we can make the stress 
tests optional if that's too long a time, what do you think?.

Cheers,
Emilio