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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New thread RDSL, post-2.6.20 kernels and amanda (tar) miss-fires
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:07:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070314050721.GP2986@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703132331.56140.gene.heskett@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:31:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Now, can someone suggest a patch I can revert that might fix this?  The 
> total number of patches between 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc1 will have me 
> building kernels to bisect this till the middle of June at this rate.

4 billion patches could be bisected in 34 boots. Between 2.6.20 and
2.6.21-rc1 there are only:

$ git rev-list --no-merges v2.6.20..v2.6.21-rc1  |wc -l
3118

patches, requiring 14 boots. In general ceil(log(n)/log(2))+2 boots.

Of course, this is a little optimistic because it assumes no additional
breakage occurring at the various bisection points. In any event,
assuming (pessimistically) 10 minutes per build, this is 280 minutes or
4 hours and 40 minutes of build time. I estimate the process should
complete well before Friday of this week, never mind June.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-14  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-13  8:28 New thread RDSL, post-2.6.20 kernels and amanda (tar) miss-fires Gene Heskett
2007-03-13 18:36 ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-14  3:31   ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-14  5:07     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2007-03-14  5:44       ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-14  6:09       ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-14  6:19         ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-14 14:54           ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-14 21:49     ` Ray Lee
2007-03-15  3:12       ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-15  4:45         ` Ray Lee
2007-03-15  6:30           ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-15  5:28         ` [OT] " Willy Tarreau
2007-03-15  6:33           ` Gene Heskett

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