Re: [patch 0/3] lib: add synthetic MM benchmarks

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2026, Usama Anjum wrote:

> >> I thought about the same and just followed what appears to be the standard 
> >> convention (like test_vmalloc above) for lib/ for now.  If they should all 
> >> be moved under tools/ somewhere, perhaps we handle that in a separate 
> >> series?
> > 
> > Yes. lib/ is just absolutely the wrong place for that.
> > 
> > Maybe lib/tests/mm
> > 
> > But then, I wonder if they could just be somewhere in tests/ directly ...
> > 
> > Anyhow, it was also raised whether some of these could be written as kunit
> > tests. It's been a long time since I worked on these, so just mentioning it.
> 
> I also think it would be best to try to add them as kunit. I'm not exactly sure if
> kunit would accept such benchmark kind of code. Some research is required there.
> 

Sounds good, I'll transition these to kunit tests, move to mm/tests/ 
alongside the other MM kunit test, and send a v3 for just the vmstat test 
as a separate thread.  If all looks good, I can do this for slab and 
pgalloc as well as a follow-up step.