Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:14:06 +0200 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf, x86: Fix event scheduler to solve complex scheduling problems |
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 11:43 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I'd also prefer if we first had actual testcases in 'perf test' for all these > > failures - it took an *awfully* long time to find these regressions (the event > > scheduler code has been committed for months), while with proper testcases it > > would only take a second to run 'perf test'. > > These cases only exist on AMD F15, I don't think there's many people > with such systems around.
Well, if the trend continues we'll have more twisted constraints and more bugs of this sort, so having a testsuite sure cannot hurt, right?
Thanks,
Ingo
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