Re: [PATCH] rcu/torture: Improve badness extraction from console logs

[Joel Fernandes]

On Sat, Sep 2, 2023 at 3:24 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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> > > Either way, what I don't want is many megabytes of splats from console.log
> > > duplicated into console.log.diags, especially in those (admittedly sad)
> > > cases where the console.log file is the largest file in the results
> > > directory.  Are you really going to be reading carefully after (say)
> > > the fifth splat?  ;-)
> >
> > I could limit it to just the first 5, with the existing unlimited
> > summary at the top.
>
> How about limiting the existing summary to (say) 10 lines?  I do not
> recall every caring about more than that.  The only reason that I did
> not ever limit it myself is that the summary is unlikely to be more than
> a few percent of the full console.log.
>
> > Let me know if that works or does not work for you. :-)
>
> I do believe that we might be converging.  ;-)

Ok, so 10 lines of summary (similar to existing), and 10 detailed
splats below that :-).  If that's not Ok, let me know. Otherwise I
will send the new patch soon. Thanks!

 - Joel