Re: ATF tests still failing to complete within 2 hours on amd64

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 03 Dec 2011, Michael van Elst wrote:
> So all systems panic at boot every 3 out of 10000 times?
 [...]
> The point being: 3 out of 10000 is too much.
If that changes from "panic" to "all systems reboot almost 
instantly, every 3 out of 10000 boots" then I would be fine with 
it.  If you have a million new users, 300 of them would hit the 
bad case on their first boot, so it would have to be handled in a 
friendly way.
If you have one device and reboot every day, you would hit the 
bad case once every 9 years, on average.  If you have an embedded 
device that the user turn on and off many times per day, it's 
likely that the user-accessible power switch would actually 
suspend the device rather than rebooting it, so it could go a very 
long time without hitting the double-reboot case.
--apb (Alan Barrett)