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

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Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:09:44 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
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


* Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@...hat.com> wrote:

> 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?

The kind of testing the VFS tree itself gets is a good starting 
point i suspect - and it is a far more critical tree as it can 
affects all filesystems. AFAICS the VFS tree relies on linux-next 
and -mm for testing mostly and that's a good model IMO.

	Ingo
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