Re: Freezing.. (was Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance)

Martin J. Bligh
2002-12-19T06:57:32Z

> Related thought:
>
> One of the things that we are trying to do is to automate
> patch testing.
>
> The PLM (www.osdl.org/plm) takes every patch that it gets
> and does a quick "Does it compile test". Right now there
> are only 4 kernel configuration files that we try but we are
> going to be adding more. We could expand this to 100's
> if needed as it would just be a matter of adding additional
> hardware to make the compiles go faster in parallel.

URL doesn't seem to work. But would be cool if you had one SMP
config, one UP with IO/APIC, and one without IO/APIC. I seem
to break the middle one whenever I write a patch ;-(

M.