Philip J. Mucci wrote:
Hi Will,
Yes, I have achieved full professional redundancy. If only I could do
this with girlfriends, I think I could start my own cult. Didn't Hubbard
say in one of his early letters to his friends that the only way to
really get rich was to start a religion? My apologies to Tom Cruise if
you're lurking on this list.
Anyways, back to work. Do you think Fedora would be willing to give us
access to a few systems on which we could install the perfmon2
substrate? I don't exactly know who's in charge of that or what relation
it has to Redhat.
I just checked in a few fixes which should fix a) Stefane's
mis-configuring on 2.6.18.1 (I'm guessing the family field in cpuinfo
went numeric) b) umask issues with AMD64 and Montecito and c)
unavailable PMC's.
Robbie is still reporting a few failures on Monte machines, so I suspect
a few will fail on others as well.
Phil
Hi Phil,
There has been some effort to make testing infrastructure externally visible and
have people actually write tests for software packages:
https://testing.108.redhat.com/
However, the main problems is that infrastructure is designed for things that
are packaged into the Fedora distribution. Currently, kernel modules needed by
papi to access the performance counters are not in the Fedora kernels.
Similarly, the papi software is not packages, but it would be relatively simple
to generate papi RPM and put it into fedora-extra. Thus, the kernel support is
the biggest impediment. Once the kernel, support is in a Fedora kernel, then
testing papi and other performance monitoring tools in the fedora infrastructure
would be possible.
I am willing to use the hodge-podge of machines in my cubicle to test things
out. However, the tests need to be more automated. They need to be something
that can be started and left to run on their own. Would like to get perfmon
software work upstream so that the testing can be off loaded to a more official
testing framework such as the Fedora test infrastructure.
Phil, I working on writng up some simple test infrastructure for perfom based on
the feedback you gave earlier in the week. Something is really needed to
exercise perfmon.
-Will
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