From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>,
Paul-Sebastian Ungureanu <ungureanupaulsebastian@gmail.com>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix the racy split index problem
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:25:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhw3hsiv.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180927142336.GJ27036@localhost>
On Thu, Sep 27 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 03:53:24PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 27 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>>
>> > This is the second attempt to fix the racy split index problem, which
>> > causes occasional failures in several random test scripts when run
>> > with 'GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes'. The important details are in patches
>> > 1 and 5 (corresponding to v1's 3 and 5).
>>
>> Thanks. I'm running the same sorts of tests I noted in
>> https://public-inbox.org/git/87va7ireuu.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/ on
>> this. The fix Jeff had that you noted in
>> https://public-inbox.org/git/20180906151439.GA8016@localhost/ is now in
>> "master".
>>
>> I take it your
>> https://github.com/szeder/git/commits/racy-split-index-fix is the same
>> as this submission?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Anyway, I'm testing that cherry-picked on top of the
>> latest master.
>>
>> Unfortunate that we couldn't get the isolated test you made in
>> https://public-inbox.org/git/20180907034942.GA10370@localhost/
>
> Nah, that's not an isolated test case, that's only a somewhat
> narrowed-down, but rather reliable reproduction recipe while I still
> had no idea what was going on :)
>
> The _real_ isolated test is the last test in t1701, that's what it
> eventually boiled down to.
Thanks. I had ~400 runs of the tests I ran before and they were all
OK. Now trying also with t1701 (which I hadn't noticed was a new
test...).
>> but I
>> don't see how it could be added without some very liberal
>> getenv("GIT_TEST_blahblah"), so it's probably best to not add it,
>> particularly with the C rewrite of git-stash in-flight.
>>
>> I'll report back when I have enough test data to say how these patches
>> affect the intermittent test failures under GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-27 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-27 12:44 [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix the racy split index problem SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-27 12:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] split-index: add tests to demonstrate " SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-28 0:48 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-28 2:40 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-28 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-27 12:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] t1700-split-index: date back files to avoid racy situations SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-27 12:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] split-index: count the number of deleted entries SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-27 12:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] split-index: don't compare stat data of entries already marked for split index SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-27 13:43 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-27 12:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] split-index: smudge and add racily clean cache entries to " SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-27 13:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix the racy split index problem Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-27 14:23 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-27 15:25 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-09-28 6:57 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-28 10:17 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-08 14:54 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-08 15:41 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-28 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] " SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-28 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] t1700-split-index: document why FSMONITOR is disabled in this test script SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-28 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] split-index: add tests to demonstrate the racy split index problem SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-28 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] t1700-split-index: date back files to avoid racy situations SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-28 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] split-index: count the number of deleted entries SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-28 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] split-index: don't compare stat data of entries already marked for split index SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-29 5:36 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-29 9:14 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-29 10:07 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-28 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] split-index: smudge and add racily clean cache entries to " SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-29 5:21 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-29 7:57 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-30 14:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] Fix the racy split index problem SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-05 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-11 9:43 ` [PATCH v4 " SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-11 9:43 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] t1700-split-index: document why FSMONITOR is disabled in this test script SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-11 9:43 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] split-index: add tests to demonstrate the racy split index problem SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-11 9:43 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] t1700-split-index: date back files to avoid racy situations SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-11 9:43 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] split-index: count the number of deleted entries SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-11 9:43 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] split-index: don't compare cached data of entries already marked for split index SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-11 9:43 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] split-index: smudge and add racily clean cache entries to " SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-11 9:53 ` [PATCH 7/6] split-index: BUG() when cache entry refers to non-existing shared entry SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-11 10:36 ` [PATCH v4 0/6] Fix the racy split index problem Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-11 11:38 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-12 3:20 ` Junio C Hamano
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