Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test

From: Pavel Tatashin
Date: Tue Aug 03 2021 - 22:02:02 EST


On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 4:56 AM Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy
<zhansayabagdaulet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add check_ksm_numa_merge() function to test that pages in different NUMA
> nodes are being handled properly. First, two duplicate pages are allocated
> in two separate NUMA nodes using the libnuma library. Since there is one
> unique page in each node, with merge_across_nodes = 0, there won't be any
> shared pages. If merge_across_nodes is set to 1, the pages will be
> treated as usual duplicate pages and will be merged. If NUMA config is
> not enabled or the number of NUMA nodes is less than two, then the test
> is skipped. The test is run as follows: ./ksm_tests -N
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>