From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [OSSTEST PATCH 5/6] cs-bisection-step: Do not treat repro attempts as flail Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 14:05:36 +0100 Message-ID: <1432127136.12989.245.camel@citrix.com> References: <1432126453-22068-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> <1432126453-22068-6-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Yv3hL-0004pP-DT for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 20 May 2015 13:06:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1432126453-22068-6-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 13:54 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > The need_repro machinery deliberarely makes attempts to reproduce > various results. > > This can cause the flail detector to trigger when not intended. In > particular, the bisector may have (for some reason[1]) restarted with > a new baseline, and the temporarally-stripy pass/fail requirement > would then require the basis fail to be repro'd, again. > > [1] Currently this happens much more often than is desirable. This > will be fixed in a moment. > > Fix this by only considering, for the purposes of flail, flights which > are no older than the first repro (the basis pass). > > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson Acked-by: Ian Campbell