linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Reiserfs/kill-bkl tree v2

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Message-ID: <y0mzlah238y.fsf@fche.csb>
Date:	Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:41:01 -0400
From:	fche@...hat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>,
	Bron Gondwana <brong@...tmail.fm>,
	Reiserfs <reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@...il.com>,
	"Trenton D. Adams" <trenton.d.adams@...il.com>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>,
	Marcel Hilzinger <mhilzinger@...uxnewmedia.de>,
	Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Reiserfs/kill-bkl tree v2

Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:

>> Yeah good idea. But again, I fear my laptop hasn't enough memory 
>> to support big enough ramdisks mount points to host selftests.
>
> Well, dont waste too much time on it (beyond the due diligence 
> level) - Andi forgot that the right way to stress-test patches is to 
> get through the review process and then through the integration 
> trees which have far more test exposure than any single contributor 
> can test.

What guideline can you offer as to what is "due diligence" level of
stress testing, as compared to delegating this task to eyeballed
reviews + incidental use on the integration trees?

- FChE
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