[PATCH 0/9] Tools and fixes for parallel parsing

[Daniel Axtens]

Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com> writes:

> On 22/02/18 01:29, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I have no idea how we could easily test this, since
>> we're using the official ozlabs.org instance. Do you think it would be
>> possible to have a separate testing instance setup, which we subscribed
>> to the Buildroot mailing list as well, just to check if the problem is
>> fixed? Of course, we won't be using this testing instance to update the
>> status of patches, but we would at least be able to verify that no
>> patches are lost.
>> 
>> What do you think?
>
> dja used to run a testing instance but VMs ain't free :)

I thought about spinning up a VM, but I'm not sure if it would be
sufficiently equivalent to the OzLabs set up to actually hit the bug...

I think hitting the issue it's due to a combination of OzLabs and
Buildroot features:
 - how quickly the buildroot mailing list sends mail
 - how quickly ozlabs receives it - both in terms of mail system lag and
   just in terms of network locality
 - how many cpus ozlabs has to parallelise processing, etc
I don't think I can get an OzLabs like virtual machine for very long
without spending a *lot* of money.
 
> We'll probably just backport this to ozlabs.org after this gets a bit of 
> review.

I think this is probably the way to go, but it's worth noting that as
always I'm not at OzLabs any more :)

Regards,
Daniel

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> Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
> andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited