On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 16:08 +0300, Michael Goldish wrote:
> On 07/01/2010 04:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > From: Amos Kong <[email protected]>
> > 
> > After testing with hugepages, memory is not released, it will cause the 
> > memory
> > lack in host. This will make the host running extremely slow and will 
> > influence
> > other tests to be executed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yiqiao Pu <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample |    1 +
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample 
> > b/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample
> > index 7f59bfc..1ed5237 100644
> > --- a/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample
> > +++ b/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample
> > @@ -1452,6 +1452,7 @@ variants:
> >      - @smallpages:
> >      - hugepages:
> >          pre_command += " scripts/hugepage.py /mnt/kvm_hugepage;"
> > +        post_command += " echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages; umount 
> > /mnt/kvm_hugepage;"
> >          extra_params += " -mem-path /mnt/kvm_hugepage"
> >  
> >  
> 
> post_command is executed after every test. This means that at the end of
> the boot test for example, while the VM is still alive, the command will
> be executed.  Won't that bother the VM?

Oops, I guess I was too hasty again. Indeed, I think at least we'll have
trouble unmounting the hugepage directory. We might think of another
solution instead of this one.


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