----- Original Message -----
> From: [email protected]
> To: "Zhouping Liu" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], "LTP List" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 8:21:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 1/3] mm/thp: new case thp04.c
> 
> Hi!
> > here 10s is similar with one inside wait_ksmd_done() (see lib/mem.c)
> > 
> > 10s is an interval for khugepaged to finish scan process's transparent
> > hugepages, and at the beginning,
> > khugepaged/[scan_sleep_millisecs|alloc_sleep_millisecs]
> > are all be set 0, so 'khugepaged' always run 100% during the testing,
> > depending on
> > this, I choose an optional value 10s to khugepaged, and I think the
> > interval is enough
> > to recognise whether khugepaged finished scanning process's anonymous
> > hugepage or not.
> 
> Hardcoded constants tend to break from time to time. Is there any
> interface that could give you information about the state of the scan?

yeah, but I can't get any interfaces to know the state of the scanning from my 
side.
IMO, it's a better solution to check the modification of khugepaged/* files so 
far.

Thanks,
Zhouping

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