From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <41AEBAB9.3050705@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 01:48:25 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: page fault scalability patch V12 [0/7]: Overview and performance tests References: <41AEB44D.2040805@pobox.com> <20041201223441.3820fbc0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041201223441.3820fbc0.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, clameter@sgi.com, hugh@veritas.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > We need to be be achieving higher-quality major releases than we did in > 2.6.8 and 2.6.9. Really the only tool we have to ensure this is longer > stabilisation periods. I'm still hoping that distros (like my employer) and orgs like OSDL will step up, and hook 2.6.x BK snapshots into daily test harnesses. Something like John Cherry's reports to lkml on warnings and errors would be darned useful. His reports are IMO an ideal model: show day-to-day _changes_ in test results. Don't just dump a huge list of testsuite results, results which are often clogged with expected failures and testsuite bug noise. Jeff -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org