Re: The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation relatedpatches

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Fri Mar 02 2007 - 18:22:02 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:

Somehow I don't believe that a person or organisation which is incapable of
preparing even a simple testcase will be capable of fixing problems such as
this without breaking things.

I don't believe anybody who relies on one simple test case will
ever be capable of evaluating a patch without breaking things.

Test cases can show problems, but fixing a test case is no
guarantee at all that your VM will behave ok with real world
workloads. Test cases for the VM can *never* be relied on
to show that a problem went away.

I'll do my best, but I can't promise a simple test case
for every single problem that's plaguing the VM.

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