Re: LSF/MM/BPF BoF: pains / goods with automation with kdevops

[Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 11:02 PM Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2023-01-28 at 21:34 -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > More suitable towards a BoF as I don't *think* a larger audience would be
> > interested. At the last LSF during our talks about automation it was suggested
> > we could share a repo and go to town as we're all adults. That's been done:
> >
> > https://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops
> >
> > At ALPSS folks suggested maybe non-github, best we can do for now is
> > gitlab:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops
> >
> > There's been quite a bit of development from folks on the To list. But
> > there's also bugs even on the upstream kernel now that can sometimes erk us.
> > One example is 9p is now used to be able to compile Linux on the host
> > instead of the guests. Well if you edit a file after boot on the host
> > for Linux, the guest won't see the update, so I guess 9p doesn't update
> > the guest's copy yet. Guests just have to reboot now. So we have to fix that
> > and I guess add 9p to fstests. Or now that we have NFS support thanks to
> > Jeff, maybe use that as an option? What's the overhead for automation Vs 9p?
> >
> > We dicussed sharing more archive of results for fstests/blktests. Done.
> > What are the other developer's pain points? What would folks like? If
> > folks want demos for complex setups let me know and we can just do that
> > through zoom and record them / publish online to help as documentation
> > (please reply to this thread in private to me and I can set up a
> > session). Let's use the time at LSF more for figuring out what is needed
> > for the next year.
> >
> >   Luis
>
> Luis mentioned that no one had replied to this expressing interest. I'm
> definitely interested in discussing kdevops if the schedule's not
> already full.

No worries.
It's already on the schedule, which btw, is now available on the website:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmm/

It's a cross FS-IO session, but I see that MM also left this slot clean.
Not sure if they have interest in kdevops as well?
If so, I can make it official FS-IO-MM.

Thanks,
Amir.