Re: Memory regression test tool on MIPS needed

["Brian FOSTER" <brian.foster@innova-card.com>]

> Sent: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:34:15 +0200
> Subject: Memory regression test tool on MIPS needed
> From: naren.mehra@gmail.com
> To: msundius@cisco.com, dvomlehn@cisco.com, ralf@linux-mips.org,
>     linux-mips@linux-mips.org, sshtylyov@mvista.com
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have recently applied the sparsemem patch on my mips board.
> Now I intend to write a detail analysis with its performance before
> and after the patch and whether it has broken anything in the memory
> management system.
> For that I need a memory regression tool that works on mips board.
> Can anybody help me with that ?

Naren,

 It may or may not be helpful, but take a look at ‘memtester’,

    http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/

 (It is also in BuildRoot.)  We've successfully used v4.12 as
 part the validation of a H/W memory controller on a new SoC.

cheers!
        -blf-