Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:20:39 -0500 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation related patches |
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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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