On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:50 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:34:34 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > selftests is a pretty scrappy place. It's partly a dumping ground for > > > > things so useful test code doesn't just get lost and bitrotted. Partly > > > > a framework so people who add features can easily test them. Partly to > > > > provide tools to architecture maintainers when they wire up new > > > > syscalls and the like. > > > > > > Yeah, ipc, for instance, also sucks _badly_ in selftests. > > > > What testsuite should people be using for IPC? > > The best I've found is using the ipc parts of LTP. It's caught a lot of > bugs in the past. Unsurprisingly, I believe Fengguang has this > automated. > > Manfred also has a few for more specific purposes -- which also serve > for performance testing: > https://github.com/manfred-colorfu/ipcsemtest > https://github.com/manfred-colorfu/ipcscale > > iirc Dave Hansen also had written some shm-specific tests. I also used to rely on multiple Oracle 11g RDBMS workloads and benchmarks, particularly for dealing with sysv sems. Unfortunately I no longer have the required licenses :( -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
