From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:15:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] Run the perf test suite for profile feedback too
Message-ID: <20140707221507.GV19781@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1ttwdgjy.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 02:06:57PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> writes:
> 
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > Open: If the perf test suite is representative enough it may
> > be reasonable to only run that and skip the much longer full
> > test suite. Thoughts?
> 
> I do not think it right now is representative, nor it was meant to
> become so.  The operations are those that people cared about and
> tuned, and hopefully it would cover stuff actual end users care
> about in the real life, though.

I ended up answering the question by creating two separate 
makefile targets in the next patch.

profile to run the full test suite and profile-fast to run
only the performance test. profile-fast as the name implies
is a lot faster to build, and fast enough that it's not 
annoying.

I'll remove the "Open"

-Andi