On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > today I did a bisection in the kernel repository: > > linux$ git version > git version 2.47.1 > > linux$ time git bisect start 09fbf3d502050282bf47ab3babe1d4ed54dd1fd8 96d8eab5d0a1a9741a4cae1b3c125d75d1aabedf > Bisecting: 572238 revisions left to test after this (roughly 19 steps) > [eafdca4d7010a0e019aaaace3dd71b432a69b54c] Merge tag 'staging-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging > > real 18m41.374s > user 27m18.306s > sys 1m0.565s > > I was surprised that it took that long to find and checkout the first > revision to check. (That is on a 4 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6440HQ CPU @ > 2.60GHz, 16 GiB RAM with a Samsung SSD. On a different machine (56 x > Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v4 @ 2.00GHz, 256 GiB RAM and (I think a > spinning hard disk)) it took nearly an hour. Related thread: https://lore.kernel.org/git/19461b87a5c.5a2ea74016716.8214238482389812984@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ -- D. Ben Knoble
