On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> I've uploaded an updated dev branch to the ext4 tree. Compared to the >>> previous version of dev branch, I've removed my modified version of >>> Allison's "NULL pointer when make_indexed_dir returns -ENOSPC" patch, >>> and I've added Amir's alloc_semp removal patches. I'm still in the >>> process of reviewing those patches; I've included them to make it easier >>> for I and others to test them. >>> >> >> I have a general question regarding testing for next merge window. >> What kernel do you usually use when testing the dev branch? >> I started writing an xfstest to test online resize and filesystem >> filling in parallel, based on test 224 (Delayed allocation at ENOSPC test). >> I started running test 224 on a kernel built from ext4/master >> and it seemed to run too slow. looking at the waiting tasks >> it looked like it could be related to I/O less throttling. >> Since ext4/master is based on 2.6.39-rc3, I figured maybe I am running >> a buggy kernel, so I merged 2.6.39-rc7 to ext4/master to build a new kernel. >> >> Am I going in the right direction at all? >> I have a dedicated server for tests (X64_64 quad core), so it you would >> like me to run some xfstest runs with specific configuration, or certain >> patches applied, please let me know. >> >> > > So now that I know I am not hearing voices, I guess test 224 is also too new > to be tested by many people. > The good news is that test 224 runs smoothly on kernel 2.6.39-rc7. > on ext4 master branch is either hung or took too long time for me to wait. > I will try to find the offending commit on Monday. I couldn't reproduce this. > > Amir. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
