Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] tests: numa-test: use -numa memdev option instead of legacy 'mem' option

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 09:33:22AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 16:37:02 -0300
> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > +    TestData data = { .ram_size = 128 };
> > >  
> > > -    if (strcmp(arch, "aarch64") == 0) {
> > > -        args = "-machine virt";
> > > +    if (!strcmp(arch, "aarch64")) {
> > > +        data.args = "-machine virt";
> > > +    } else if (!strcmp(arch, "ppc64")) {
> > > +        data.ram_size = 512;  
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be simpler to always use "-m 512M" and the same node
> > sizes?
> it would, but it might make some CI instances start failing more
> often where it used to work before. So I picked side of being
> conservative and not to hog memory unless it's necessary.

I don't understand.  Why would "-m 512M" make some CI instances
start failing more often?

-- 
Eduardo