Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755871AbXLUA7M (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:59:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753641AbXLUA65 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:58:57 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:52911 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753074AbXLUA64 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:58:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:58:32 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: LKML , Andi Kleen , Thomas Gleixner , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , Jan Beulich Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: another attempt at x86 pagetable unification Message-ID: <20071221005832.GB21860@elte.hu> References: <20071219223534.129042140@goop.org> <20071220094940.GA14227@elte.hu> <20071220112022.GA15832@elte.hu> <476AD9EA.7010108@goop.org> <20071220213906.GB11897@elte.hu> <476AE7D6.9000600@goop.org> <20071220222429.GA28029@elte.hu> <476B0E59.5070503@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <476B0E59.5070503@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 23 * Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Well, testing for bisectability requires compiling each patch as its > applied, which gets painful for something like this where any change > will rebuild the world. And dealing with patch conflicts caused by > changing early patches in the series is never fun. that's true. The 'rej' tool helps alot though. ( Plus a distcc cluster that builds a distro kernel in 45-50 seconds from scratch ;) > But I'm refactoring the series into smaller pieces now. Knowing what > the outcome should look like, and there the pitfalls are, makes it > fairly easy. ok, great :-) Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/