From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-blkfront: use bitmap_set() and bitmap_clear()
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:04:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120120160408.9aa3b5fd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120120235508.GA17260@phenom.dumpdata.com>
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:55:08 -0500
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:11:49PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:09:38 -0500
> > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > > Did you test this patch with a large amount of minors?
> > > >
> > > > Sorry I didn't do runtime test.
> > >
> > > Please do.
> >
> > The poor guy probably doesn't know how to test it and surely it would
> > be quite a lot of work for him to do so.
> >
> > Overall, it would be much more efficient if the tester of this code is
> > someone who is set up to easily apply the patch and test it. ie: the
> > code maintainer(s).
>
> <grins>
>
> This patch aside - Andrew how do you deal with a large amount of patches
> and make sure they are tested?
Not very well :(
> Is there a weekly Test Tuesday where you
> kick off your automated tests and dilligently look for any variations?
> Or is it more of compile the kernel with X features and run it for a week
> doing normal (and abnormal!) things to see if it falls over?
I build all the patches I have along with all of linux-next and boot
the thing, then use the resulting kernel for a few hours compilation
testing, then shove it all into linux-next where I naively hope that
someone else is testing things.
The coverage which is obtained this way is pretty poor.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-21 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-20 15:15 [PATCH] percpu: use bitmap_clear Akinobu Mita
2012-01-20 15:15 ` [PATCH] ocfs2: use find_last_bit Akinobu Mita
2012-01-20 15:15 ` [PATCH] ocfs2: use bitmap_weight() Akinobu Mita
2012-01-20 15:15 ` [PATCH] xen-blkfront: use bitmap_set() and bitmap_clear() Akinobu Mita
2012-01-20 15:27 ` Akinobu Mita
2012-01-20 15:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-20 15:41 ` Akinobu Mita
2012-01-20 16:09 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-20 23:11 ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-20 23:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-21 0:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-01-20 15:15 ` [PATCH] hpsa: use find_first_zero_bit Akinobu Mita
2012-01-20 15:41 ` scameron
2012-01-20 15:15 ` [PATCH] sysctl: use bitmap library functions Akinobu Mita
2012-01-20 15:19 ` [PATCH] percpu: use bitmap_clear Christoph Lameter
2012-01-20 17:24 ` Tejun Heo
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