linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] vfs: Non-blockling buffered fs read (page cache only)

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Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:42:40 +1100
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Milosz Tanski <milosz@...in.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-aio@...ck.org" <linux-aio@...ck.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@...net.de>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] vfs: Non-blockling buffered fs read (page cache
 only)

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:03:14PM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Milosz Tanski <milosz@...in.com> writes:
> 
> >> Can you write a test (or set of) for fstests that exercises this new
> >> functionality? I'm not worried about performance, just
> >> correctness....
> >
> > Sure thing. Can you point me at the fstests repo? A quick google
> > search reveals lots of projects named fstests, most of them abandoned.
> 
> I think he's referring to xfstests.  Still, I think that's the wrong
> place for functional testing.  ltp would be better, imo.

I don't follow. Can you explain why is xfstests be the wrong place
to exercise this functionality and what makes ltp a better choice?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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