Re: NIPA: TDC: delay the start

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2026 11:43:27 +0100 Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> Hi Pedro,
> 
> I hope you are doing well.
> 
> I'm helping the netdev maintainers with the CI (NIPA), and lately, I
> noticed the 'tdc' runners were often marked as either "timeout" or
> "pending". It looks like this is because it missed the creation of the
> branch which can take more than 2 minutes for various reasons: PW access
> is slow, git push needs to be retried in a few seconds, etc.
> 
> I opened a PR to delay the start:
> 
>   https://github.com/p4tc-dev/tc-executor/pull/2
> 
> Another solution is to let the tdc* services running and doing the
> monitoring themselves. In other words, you need to remove
> "single_shot=true" from the config file. It might require you to update
> the NIPA repo you are using to get access to a bunch of fixes.

Keeps happening, I dropped TDC from required runners for now.