[PATCH blktests v1] nvme/029: reserve hugepages for lager allocations

Shinichiro Kawasaki shinichiro.kawasaki at wdc.com
Wed Feb 21 18:46:28 PST 2024


On Feb 21, 2024 / 08:43, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> The test is issuing larger IO workload. This depends on being able to
> allocate larger chunks of linear memory. nvme-cli used to use libhugetlb
> to automatically allocate the HugeTLB pool. Though nvme-cli dropped the
> dependency on the library, thus the test should try to provision the
> system accordingly.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli/issues/2218
> Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang at redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner at suse.de>

Thanks, applied.

I note here that an opportunity is left to improve stability of nvme-cli linear
memory allocation in the test case as discussed [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/99bba6e6-1ae3-49d2-842b-680257cedbad@kernel.org/


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