kernelci / kernelci/kci-bisect
N-bisect: parallel bisection
- Dominant language
- Python
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- 0
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Description
Instead of testing one commit per round, pick N evenly-spaced commits
and test them all at once.
With n=7 and 1000 commits you're looking at ~4 rounds instead of 10.
Git has the primitives for this (git rev-list --bisect-all, etc.).
Depends on having decent build caching in place, otherwise you're
just burning resources. Guillaume noted this was considered before
for KernelCI and wasn't worth it without caching.
Existing tools: git-pisect (Perl), risect (Rust).
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Research direction
The issue names no files or tests. Begin by evaluating git rev-list --bisect-all and the build-caching dependency, then compare the approach with git-pisect and risect; done means supporting cached, parallel N-way commit testing without wasting resources.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- git, python
- Domain
- cli, devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100