Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] ci: reorganise Travis jobs

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

19/02/2020 22:39, Aaron Conole:
> David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Let's prune the jobs list to limit the amount of time spent by the robot
> > in Travis.
> >
> > Since meson enables automatically the relevant components, there is not
> > much gain in testing with extra_packages vs required_packages only.
> >
> > For a given arch/compiler/env combination, compilation is first tested
> > in all jobs that run tests or build the docs or run the ABI checks.
> > In the same context, for jobs that accumulates running tests, building
> > the docs etc..., those steps are independent and can be split to save
> > some cpu on Travis.
> >
> > With this, we go down from 21 to 15 jobs.
> >
> > Note: this patch requires a flush of the existing caches in Travis.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> > ---
> 
> In general, I think the idea with required vs. extra was to have a build
> that did the minimum required, and one that did all the packages (to
> allow a minimum vs. full DPDK).
> 
> At least, that's from
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-January/124007.html

I think the benefit of a minimum build is to have a quick report,
and easy to setup.

> Not sure if that's still something anyone cares about.

Given that Travis knows how to satisfy the dependencies,
and that we must wait for all jobs to finish,
I don't see any benefit of a minimal setup.