Re: [PATCH v3 14/14] gitlab: add jobs for thorough block tests

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 08:53:53AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 15/01/2026 17.47, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > CI is only exercising the qcow2 'auto' tests currently. As a result we
> > get no exposure of changes which cause regressions in other block format
> > drivers.
> > 
> > This adds new CI jobs for each block format, that will run the target
> > 'make check-block-$FORMAT'. The jobs are separate so that we have the
> > ability to make each format gating or not, depending on their level
> > of reliability.
> > 
> > There is currently an undiagnosed failure of job 185 with the qcow2 when
> > run in CI that is marked to be skipped, reported at:
> > 
> >    https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/3270
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 92 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> > index dfe954fe3c..91b398bd63 100644
> > --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> > +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> > @@ -176,6 +176,98 @@ build-system-centos:
> >         x86_64-softmmu rx-softmmu sh4-softmmu
> >       MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-build
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> 
> One more though: I think we could then also remove the iotests from the
> "build-tcg-disabled" job since they should now be covered by this new job...
> WDYT?

Oh, I never noticed we had randomly stuffed a bunch of extra
iotests into that job ! That is redundant *provided* we can
indeed go forward with the new block-raw & block-qcow2 jobs
being gating jobs.

With regards,
Daniel
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