From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761271AbXEJNja (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 09:39:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758185AbXEJNjJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 09:39:09 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:32880 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752097AbXEJNjI (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 09:39:08 -0400 Message-ID: <46431FEC.7000901@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:36:44 -0400 From: Chuck Lever Reply-To: chuck.lever@oracle.com Organization: Oracle Corporation User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Trond Myklebust , Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , NeilBrown , Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [bisect] NFS regression breaks X References: <46423D62.2070200@garzik.org> <1178748206.6760.3.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20070509155228.d1b9d644.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1178755813.6760.26.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> In-Reply-To: <1178755813.6760.26.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050203050704090904090506" X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050203050704090904090506 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 15:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> It's a bit rough that Jeff spent a large amount of time hunting down an >> already-known bug. That's normally my job :( > > The bug was reported by Florin Iucha (on lkml!) on Saturday. It has only > just been debugged, and I was in fact in the middle of marshalling the > fixes. > >> This five-week-old diff only ever appeared in 2.6.21-mm1, which was >> released four days ago. It was then whizzed into mainline. We thus lost >> five weeks public testing which would probably have saved Jeff his pain. >> >> What went wrong? > > Probably my fault. I've had a couple of weeks of heavy travel due to > various circumstances that were beyond my control, and so I had little > time in which to test the stuff and push it out. > > Another factor that is affecting us is the slow but gradual collapse of > the OSDL NFSv4 regression testing effort. I had expected that many of these issues would be caught by the OSDL test harness. I learned only yesterday that it was no longer available, so I am making an effort to broaden my personal test regime. --------------050203050704090904090506 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="chuck.lever.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="chuck.lever.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Chuck Lever n:Lever;Chuck org:Oracle Corporation;Corporate Architecture: Linux Projects Group adr:;;1015 Granger Avenue;Ann Arbor;MI;48104;USA title:Principal Member of Staff tel;work:+1 248 614 5091 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://oss.oracle.com/~cel/ version:2.1 end:vcard --------------050203050704090904090506--