From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@gmail.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: another attempt at x86 pagetable unification
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:58:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071221005832.GB21860@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <476B0E59.5070503@goop.org>
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-21 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-19 22:35 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-19 22:35 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86: clean up asm-x86/page*.h Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-19 22:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86: unify pgtable*.h Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-20 12:19 ` Eduardo Habkost
2007-12-20 21:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-19 22:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86: fix up formatting in pgtable*.h Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-19 22:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86: use a uniform structure for pte_t Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-19 22:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86: clean up pagetable-related printk format warnings Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-20 9:13 ` [PATCH 0/5] x86: another attempt at x86 pagetable unification Ingo Molnar
2007-12-20 9:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-20 11:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-20 21:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-20 21:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-20 22:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-20 22:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-21 0:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-21 0:58 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-12-21 1:03 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 21:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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