Hi Everybody, With I/O Throttle patches submitted by Andrea Righi, we enter a new age of Linux testing through LTP. Andrea has submitted lot of patches to the LKML regarding his work on I/O controllers. He has also contributed the same test cases to LTP and is now available to you with the latest snapshot.
With this we are able to create the concept of LTP-mm tree, which resembles logically with the kernel-mm tree, but not a separate physical code tree. The idea revolves around the concept of starting to have test cases in LTP, for which the corresponding features are still in various stages of discussion within Linux Kernel, but nonetheless potential candidates to subsequent stable kernel releases. The LTP-mm test cases will target to uncover Bugs in very early stages of kernel, so that we can minimize the greater risk of fixing them later. However test cases written for LTP-mm will also assure another important aspect of Code Coverage. If test cases are made available much before, or, at least parallely with features submission to LKML, we will make sure that the code coverage of future kernels will increase substantially, as and when the process gets institutionalized. Having said that, we still face the daunting challenges: 1) How much can we inspire the community to write test cases along with the features going to LKML, 2) How much resource can Organizations/community invest on writing test cases. We hope this will start a new era and we will be able to showcase the importance of early Linux testing, and drive in more contributions in the area in future. Let us know your thoughts on this. Regards-- Subrata Some Links: http://lwn.net/Articles/265944/ http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/4/143 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list Ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
