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

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* Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> 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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