Subject: Re: Testsuite failure on s390x and sparc64 after 6840fe9ee2

From: Todd Zullinger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:27:50 -0400

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> the following commit:
> 
> commit 6840fe9ee29ab51ffd7d924c624dc62da22c50bf
> Author: Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Mon Feb 3 17:11:05 2025 +0000
> 
>     backfill: add --min-batch-size=<n> option
>     
>     Users may want to specify a minimum batch size for their needs. This is only
>     a minimum: the path-walk API provides a list of OIDs that correspond to the
>     same path, and thus it is optimal to allow delta compression across those
>     objects in a single server request.
>     
>     We could consider limiting the request to have a maximum batch size in the
>     future. For now, we let the path-walk API batches determine the
>     boundaries.
> (...)
> 
> broke the testsuite on s390x [1] and sparc64 [2]. The following test fails:
> 
> not ok 4 - do partial clone 2, backfill min batch size
> 
> CC'ing the author which is Derrick Stolee.

I reported this during the rc period.  I didn't hear back on
it, but hopefully your message will arrive at a more
convenient time. :)

https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/

-- 
Todd