From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>, Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Handle sync_seqno correctly when seqno has wrapped.
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:54:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84c8a8$6gsevb@orsmga001.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uGY17_1WVOgqDz7ZDO8mLwQYZK076Bh32g3u_=mp_sWZg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:45:14 +0100, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> trying to engineer a perfect test for the
> single failure mode we now have in front of us might actually reduce
> coverage.
This is a critical point worth remembering when writing tests: Having a
test case that detects a past bug is great, but a test case that
detects a future bug is better.
-Chris.
--
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-13 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-13 13:51 [PATCH] drm/i915: Handle sync_seqno correctly when seqno has wrapped Mika Kuoppala
2012-11-13 14:15 ` Chris Wilson
2012-11-13 16:39 ` Ben Widawsky
2012-11-13 16:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-11-13 16:52 ` Ben Widawsky
2012-11-13 16:54 ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2012-11-19 10:55 ` Mika Kuoppala
2012-11-19 17:21 ` Ben Widawsky
2012-11-29 8:43 ` Mika Kuoppala
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