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Re: no more pullreq processing til February
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Alex Bennée |
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Re: no more pullreq processing til February |
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Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:49:15 +0000 |
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Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> On 26/01/2023 15.41, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 at 14:35, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> I'm confident we can rationalize our jobs, especially the cross
>>> compilation ones.
>>>
>>> For each non-x86 arch we've got two sets of jobs, one for system
>>> emulators and one for user emulators.
>>>
>>> IMHO the most interesting part of non-x86 testing is the TCG
>>> host target. We don't need 2 jobs to cover that, either system
>>> or user emulators would cover TCG build / test. Most of the rest
>>> of code is not heavily host arch dependant.
>> I'm not super enthusiastic about cutting this down.
>> I find the non-x86 testing is the most interesting part
>> of the CI -- most patch submitters and system submaintainers
>> have already done local compile-and-build with the common
>> x86_64 recent-distro target, so those parts pretty much
>> always succeed. The benefit of the auto CI is in keeping
>> the platforms that aren't so widely used by developers
>> working (both different-host-arch and different-OS).
>
> I mostly agree. Question is whether we really need all of them, e.g.
> do we really need both, the *-armel and the *-armhf jobs for both, the
> -user and the -system part? Or would it be still ok to e.g. only have
> a -armel-user and a -armhf-system job and drop the other two?
I suspect just the armhf target is good enough but as you say later...
> I think there are also other possibilities where we could cut down CI
> minutes, e.g.:
>
> - Avoid that some of the -softmmu targets get build multiple
> times
>
> - Re-arrange the Avocodo jobs: We should maybe rather sort them
> by target system instead of host distro to avoid that some
> targets get tested twice here.
We can use tags to select groups of avocado tests I think.
> - Do we really need Linux-based clang jobs if we test Clang
> compilation with macOS and FreeBSD, too?
Depends - is there any version drift between them?
> - Would it be OK to merge the merge the build-without-default-
> devices and build-without-default-features jobs?
Sure
>
> And after all, I'd like to raise one question again: Could we finally
> stop supporting 32-bit hosts? ... that would really help to get rid of
> both, some CI minutes and some maintainer burden.
I'm totally down for that. Most distros have put 32 bit onto life
support haven't they?
>
> Thomas
--
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
- Re: no more pullreq processing til February, (continued)
Re: no more pullreq processing til February, Alex Bennée, 2023/01/26
Re: no more pullreq processing til February, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2023/01/26
- Re: no more pullreq processing til February, Peter Maydell, 2023/01/26
- Re: no more pullreq processing til February, Thomas Huth, 2023/01/27
- Re: no more pullreq processing til February, Kevin Wolf, 2023/01/27
- Re: no more pullreq processing til February, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2023/01/27
- Re: no more pullreq processing til February, Peter Maydell, 2023/01/27
- Re: no more pullreq processing til February, Peter Maydell, 2023/01/27
Re: no more pullreq processing til February, Markus Armbruster, 2023/01/27