Re: [PATCH v5 11/17] tests/docker: strip remaining caching logic from docker.py

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com> writes:

> On 9/18/2026 12:30 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 9/17/2026 3:18 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
>>>> On 9/17/26 12:00, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
>>>>> On 9/17/2026 2:49 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>>>>> how much time? it flies past when I run a rebuild.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For a no-op tcg-tests build (i.e. with tests already built):
>>>>>
>>>>> - With current patch:
>>>>> time ninja -C tcg-tests
>>>>> ...
>>>>> verbose pull and build
>>>>> 320 lines of output
>>>>> ...
>>>>> real    0m15.817s
>>>>> user    0m1.342s
>>>>> sys     0m0.840s
>> 
>>   ✗  time ninja
>>   [1/114] Generating qemu-version.h with a custom command (wrapped by meson to capture output)
>> 
>>   ________________________________________________________
>>   Executed in  515.16 millis    fish           external
>>      usr time  433.82 millis  968.00 micros  432.85 millis
>>      sys time   86.05 millis  253.00 micros   85.80 millis
>> 
>> Not sure whats going on there then. The whole tcg suite completes in
>> under a minute (and would be shorter if i386-linux-user-test-i386-fprem
>> and riscv64-softmmu-plugin-discons-with-interruptedmemory where in the
>> thorough test suite).
>>
>
> You need to run "ninja tcg-tests" explicitly, as tests (and images) are
> not built by default.

What is that target trying to do? Because when I run:

  ./run meson test --suite tcg

it still ends up rebuilding the test binaries. 

>
>>>>
>>>> The variance from the middle of the pacific ocean, and associated
>>>> network latency, is between 20 and 27 seconds.
>>>>
>>>> Amusingly, with the network actively disconnected (airplane mode), the
>>>> no-op build completes in 1 to 2 seconds.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Funny, on my side if hangs a long time (timeout 30s), then retry 3 times
>>> per image. I tried it on WSL on my windows laptop.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> r~
>> 

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro