From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261562AbULBGsn (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:48:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261558AbULBGsn (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:48:43 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:12452 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261509AbULBGsk (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:48:40 -0500 Message-ID: <41AEBAB9.3050705@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 01:48:25 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: torvalds@osdl.org, clameter@sgi.com, hugh@veritas.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: page fault scalability patch V12 [0/7]: Overview and performance tests References: <41AEB44D.2040805@pobox.com> <20041201223441.3820fbc0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041201223441.3820fbc0.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > We need to be be achieving higher-quality major releases than we did in > 2.6.8 and 2.6.9. Really the only tool we have to ensure this is longer > stabilisation periods. I'm still hoping that distros (like my employer) and orgs like OSDL will step up, and hook 2.6.x BK snapshots into daily test harnesses. Something like John Cherry's reports to lkml on warnings and errors would be darned useful. His reports are IMO an ideal model: show day-to-day _changes_ in test results. Don't just dump a huge list of testsuite results, results which are often clogged with expected failures and testsuite bug noise. Jeff