linux-kernel - Re: Fast testing

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Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:53:20 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Dragoslav Zaric <dragoslav.zaric.kd@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Fast testing

Dragoslav Zaric <dragoslav.zaric.kd@...il.com> writes:

As others pointed out vmlinux is not demand paged.

> Since rebooting is a long process,

The trick is to not make it a long process. Some ways to do that:

- Test simple changes in emulation. Emulators tend to boot faster
than real systems.
- Use a stripped down Linux distribution that boots fast. I found
that just using a old Linux distribution (without udev with static /dev) 
and minimal services boots dramatically faster. I use opensuse 10.0 for that.
- When you need to test on a real system use nfsroot with kernel
boot through PXE. First that saves you one iteration of rebooting/copying
to update a kernel. And then the NFS server can keep the small nfsroot cached
in memory and then deliver it immediately.

-Andi


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