Re: [Announce] Linux Test Project

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 14:48:13 EST


On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:06:28PM -0500, Nathan Straz wrote:
>
> - What is needed immediately? Building a test suite for the kernel is
> going to take time. What tests or tools are most important?

Interesting would be a test suite stress that tests common system calls
in parallel on multiple CPUs. I would guess that could catch a lot of
locking bugs introduced with the 2.4 SMP scaling work.

I think that would be very useful for a good 2.4 release.

-Andi

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