Re: [PATCH 0/8] AMD opteron mm config numa etc

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 05:39:06 EST



* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:37:52 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Note: Andrew might get grumpy when
> > your PCI tree starts changing nearby places in arch/x86/pci again and it
> > clashes with these changes in x86.git
>
> s/Andrew/Stephen/I hope/;)/
>
> Hopefully we can soon start feeding these more problematic trees into
> linux-next and yes, Stephen will need some more thought/support from
> his upstreams to make that viable.

btw., the correct metric would be "real user-side regressions per
commit" (maybe real regressions per line of code changed), not "number
of commits". With the latter metric, x86.git is "problematic". For the
former, it's much less so ;-)

i.e. you should punish buggy trees that affect real testers out there,
not high-flux trees that by virtue of their flux cause more integration
work.

Ingo
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