Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753440Ab0FAG0Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 02:26:25 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:40776 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752960Ab0FAG0X (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 02:26:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:25:40 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Pekka Enberg , Alexander Viro Cc: tytso@mit.edu, Alex Buell , Mailing Lists - Kernel Developers , Eric Paris , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: Article in Phoronix about loss of performance in 2.6.35 release candidates Message-ID: <20100601062540.GA31131@elte.hu> References: <1275347969.29006.5.camel@lithium.local.net> <20100601041028.GB4426@thunk.org> <20100601061749.GA26705@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100601061749.GA26705@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 0.5 BAYES_40 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 20 to 40% [score: 0.3699] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1019 Lines: 26 * Ingo Molnar wrote: > Is lacking pretty much all essential pieces of information which are > required for reverts: > > - it has no description about who reported the bug. In fact it was _bisected_ by Eric Paris, so a Bisected-by tag is a must. Eric is a nice guy and i'm sure wont complain about this, but i can tell it with a 100% certainty that to most testers and developers bisecting bugs is a tiresome and error-prone process that involves quite a bit of work. Bisecting a bug is often more work to do than the work which went into the original commit and the revert, combined. So if we want more people to test our commits then the least we can do is to credit testers by making proper use of the Reported-by and Bisected-by tags. 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/