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From: Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Bug-introducing patches
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 23:20:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180911232000.GB3821@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1536707508.3511.16.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 07:11:48PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
>On Tue, 2018-09-11 at 23:04 +0000, Sasha Levin via Ksummit-discuss
>wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 06:53:29PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2018-09-11 at 16:31 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:09:32 -0400
>> > > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > On Tue, 2018-09-11 at 14:39 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> >
>> > [...]
>> > > > > > This applies to 0day as well, because, by agreement, it has
>> > > > > > a much deeper set of xfstest runs for branches we actually
>> > > > > > queue for -next rather than the more cursory set of tests
>> > > > > > it runs on ML patches.  
>> > > > >
>> > > > > What about the tests on local branches? Not what you post to
>> > > > > the ML.  
>> > > >
>> > > > I don't really see any point having a local -pre-next pass and
>> > > > hoping 0day will find it.  It's much more valuable (and faster)
>> > > > to push to -next and have all the integrated tests work on it
>> > > > once we've done everything we can locally.
>> > >
>> > > Why not do what I do and push to a -pre-next branch when you kick
>> > > off your local tests?
>> >
>> > Because there's no point.  As I said, when we complete the local
>> > criteria the branch is ready for integration.  We push to -next and
>> > *all* the built bots tell us if there are any problems (which I
>> > don't expect there are but there's room for me to be wrong) ...
>> > including 0day.  I don't see what the delay and the process hassle
>> > would buy us if we only get a review by 0day in the -pre-next
>> > branch.  It seems more efficient to let every bot loose on what we
>> > think is mergeable.
>>
>> The problem with that approach is that it will break build more
>> often, and if build is broken then usually no automated testing are
>> getting done for that day.
>
>You're making the wrong assumption: most bugs aren't build breaks.  We
>do occasionally have them, usually because of an obscure config
>interaction issue, but it's a tiny percentage, so the impact to the
>entire tree usually isn't great.

Right, most bugs aren't build/boot bugs, but between all various
subsystems there's always the one that snuck through. It only takes one
to kill build.

>However, think of this like release early, release often.  If we think
>a branch is ready but there's a lurking bug, even a build related one,
>it's better we find out sooner than later, so it's still better we
>expose it ASAP to the full test machinery.  If it's one the local
>criteria should have caught, I'm sure there'll be a huge line up of
>people wanting to complain (which is why we try to make sure any
>lurking bugs aren't build related).

Right, I'm not saying delay it, I'm just saying that you should feed it
to the bots *while* you run your testsuites, even if to just get build
coverage.

Also remember that -next releases once a day in a very predictable
timing, there's usually a few hours to spare between your push and the
time linux-next gets constructed, so ASAP isn't really all that critical
here as long as it gets in the same day.

--
Thanks,
Sasha

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-11 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 138+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-04 20:16 [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Bug-introducing patches Sasha Levin
2018-09-04 20:53 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-05 14:17   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-07  0:51     ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-07  1:09       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-07 20:12         ` Greg KH
2018-09-07 21:12           ` Greg KH
2018-09-07  1:09       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-07  1:49         ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-07  2:31           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-07  2:45             ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-07  3:43               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-07  8:52                 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-07  8:40               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-07  9:07                 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-07  9:28                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-07 17:05                   ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-07 14:54             ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-07 15:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-07 16:17                 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-07 21:39                   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-09 12:50                   ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-10 20:05                     ` Tony Lindgren
2018-09-10 19:43                 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-10 20:45                   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-10 21:20                     ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-10 21:46                       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-10 23:03                         ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-10 23:13                           ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-11 15:42                             ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-11 17:40                               ` Tony Lindgren
2018-09-11 17:47                                 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-11 18:12                                   ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-11 18:17                                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-12 15:15                                       ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-11 18:19                                     ` James Bottomley
2018-09-12 15:17                                       ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-11 18:39                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-11 20:09                                     ` James Bottomley
2018-09-11 20:31                                       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-11 22:53                                         ` James Bottomley
2018-09-11 23:04                                           ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-11 23:11                                             ` James Bottomley
2018-09-11 23:20                                               ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2018-09-12 15:41                                                 ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-11 23:22                                           ` Tony Lindgren
2018-09-11 23:29                                             ` James Bottomley
2018-09-12 11:55                                               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-12 12:03                                                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-12 12:29                                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-12 12:53                                                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-12 13:10                                                       ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-09-12 13:30                                                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-12 23:16                                                         ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-12 14:11                                                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-19  8:26                                                         ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-20  9:02                                                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-09-20 10:10                                                             ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-20 11:00                                                               ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-20 11:08                                                                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-20 11:49                                                                   ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-12 12:36                                                 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-12 13:38                                                   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-12 13:59                                                     ` Tony Lindgren
2018-09-12 10:04                                             ` Mark Brown
2018-09-12 20:24                                           ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-12 20:29                                             ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-13  0:19                                             ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-13 11:39                                               ` Mark Brown
2018-09-19  6:27                                                 ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-19 17:24                                                   ` Mark Brown
2018-09-19 21:42                                                     ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-11  0:49                           ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-11  1:01                             ` Al Viro
2018-09-11  0:47                         ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-11 17:35                           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-11  0:43                       ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-11 16:49                         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-11 17:47                           ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-11 11:18                       ` Mark Brown
2018-09-11 17:02                         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-11 17:12                           ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-11 17:31                             ` Mark Brown
2018-09-11 17:41                               ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-11 18:54                                 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-11 18:03                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-11 17:22                           ` James Bottomley
2018-09-11 17:56                             ` Mark Brown
2018-09-11 18:00                               ` James Bottomley
2018-09-11 18:16                                 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-11 18:07                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-12  9:09                             ` Dan Carpenter
2018-09-11 17:26                           ` Mark Brown
2018-09-11 18:45                           ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-11 18:57                             ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-11 20:15                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-12  9:03                           ` Dan Carpenter
2018-09-10 23:01                     ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-10 23:12                       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-10 23:32                         ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-10 23:38                           ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-10 23:38                     ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-07  2:33           ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-07  2:52           ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-07 14:37             ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-07 15:06               ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-07 15:54                 ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-07 16:09                   ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-07 20:23                     ` Greg KH
2018-09-07 21:13                       ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-07 22:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-07 22:43                           ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-07 22:53                             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-07 22:57                               ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-07 23:52                                 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-08 16:33                                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-08 18:35                                   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-10 13:47                                     ` Mark Brown
2018-09-09  4:36                                   ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-10 16:20                             ` Dan Rue
2018-09-07 21:32                 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-09-07 21:43                   ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-08 13:20                     ` Dan Carpenter
2018-09-10  8:23                     ` Jan Kara
2018-09-10  7:53                   ` Jan Kara
2018-09-07  3:38           ` Al Viro
2018-09-07  4:27           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-07  5:45             ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-07  9:13             ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-07 11:32               ` Mark Brown
2018-09-07 21:06               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-08  9:44                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-08 11:48                   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-09 14:26                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-10 22:14                       ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-07 14:56             ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-07 15:07               ` Jens Axboe
2018-09-07 20:58                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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