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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
	Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>, Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>,
	Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Y2038][time namespaces] Question regarding CLOCK_REALTIME support plans in Linux time namespaces
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 13:43:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201103124323.GA8061@yuki.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0v7kwdc.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

Hi!
> Virtualization is the right answer to the testing problem and if people
> really insist on running their broken legacy apps past 2038, then stick
> them into a VM and charge boatloads of money for that service.

Let me just emphasise this with a short story. Before I release LTP I do
a lot of pre-release testruns to make sure that all tests works well on
a different distributions and kernel versions.

Before I wrote a script that automated this[1] i.e. runs all the tests in
qemu and filters out the interesting results it took me a few days of
manual labor to finish the task. Now I just schedulle the jobs and after
a day or two I get the results. Even if the tested kernel crashes, which
happens a lot, the machine is just restarted automatically and the
testrun carries on with a next test. All in all the work that has been
put into the solution wasn't that big to begin with it took me a week to
write a first prototype from a scratch.

[1] https://github.com/metan-ucw/runltp-ng

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-03 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-30 10:02 [Y2038][time namespaces] Question regarding CLOCK_REALTIME support plans in Linux time namespaces Lukasz Majewski
2020-10-30 13:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 15:43   ` Lukasz Majewski
2020-10-30 13:58 ` Cyril Hrubis
2020-10-30 14:02   ` Zack Weinberg
2020-10-30 15:10     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 16:58       ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-10-30 20:06         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 22:19           ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-10-31  1:38             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-03 12:43               ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2020-11-05 17:25               ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-11-07  0:47                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-19 18:37                   ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-11-20  0:14                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-25 17:06                       ` Petr Špaček
2020-11-25 20:37                       ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-11-26  0:17                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-26  3:05                           ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-11-26  8:21                             ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-14 10:25 ` Pavel Machek

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