Hi Subrata, Subrata Modak wrote: > 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.
first of all thanks for using my patchset for this example ;-) > 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. I've to say that I really like this, although the challenge may be tough. In addition to the advantages you mentioned, I think accepting test cases in LTP-mm for not-yet-stable (or even not included) kernel functionalities can be certainly an excellent opportunity for a lot of kernel developers to have a common framework to write their own benchmarking/stress-test tools and to share them with the community. -Andrea > > 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
