Re: NIPA: TDC: delay the start

[Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>]

Hi Victor,

On 09/11/2026 18:39, Victor Nogueira wrote:
> Hi Matthieu,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/11/2026 18:22, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2026 at 11:58 AM Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jamal,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your reply!
>>>>
>>>> On 06/11/2026 22:39, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>>>>> ,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2026 at 12:28 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Good idea, I just changed that!
>>>>
>>>> Please ping me when it is fixed, so I can re-enable the runner on NIPA's
>>>> side.
>>>
>>> @Victor Nogueira  is the one fixing it..
> 
> I applied the change Saturday and it's been running fine since then.

Ah good, thank you, I thought I had to wait because the PR was not merged.

> I think it's safe to re-enable now.

Just did!

Cheers,
Matt